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I had a terrible graduate school experience. Maybe because I went into a history graduate program and I thought I would learn a lot about history. But it was nothing like that. It was very politcal. The professors who had tenure were not helpful. They all wanted to write books and articles and did not care how long or even if we ever finished our Masters degrees or PhDs. Not all of the professors were like that, but enough of them were like that. Enough of them to make for a miserable experience. And we had to go to these meetings all of the time where they would tell us that because we were graduating from a state university we would probably never get jobs because the only people getting jobs were from big schools like Yale and Harvard. As I said this may be major dependent because I talked to other students at other graduate schools in history and they said the same thing. But I have talked to people at smaller colleges who have had a good experience. So maybe the key to a good graduate school experience is going to a smaller school.