研究生学习什么(What Do Graduate Students Study)

　　many people regard entering a graduate school as the last chance to pursue academic education and as the place where students can keep on learning and concentrate on their studies. but, what graduate students study? teachers at school will tell you many serious topics. let me talk about this from the perspective of an ex-graduate student.

　　i entered one of charles moore’s studios in texas university at the age of 28. on the first day to school, the assistant gave me a piece of paper after receiving my personal information. i had to go to the place drawn on the paper with my “bathing suit” on a certain day. when i got there, i found that was charles moore’s self-designed residence in austin. the teacher and students all dipped in a swimming pool. when we felt it was enough, we would get out of the pool and had mexican barbecue. in my memory, i spent my first semester traveling and enjoying fine food.

　　of course this was not all of my two-year graduate school life. but the point is which part of your graduate school life you want to

　　recall after so many years? or, is there anything worthy of being mentioned?

　　the two-year graduate school life is not the extension of college life. it is a brand-new learning phase. if college education comprises

　　80 percent of practicality and 20 percent of ideal which helps most students find a job right after graduation and leaves some chances for

　　grow, then education of a graduation school comprises 80 percent of ideal and 20 percent of practicality whose goal is to discover more

　　potential from students. if you intended to find a job with higher wages, you need not spend two more years going back to school.

　　if you want to pursue a higher goal, you will not care what graduate students study. what you will care is what kind of life you want in order to broaden your eyesight and to pursue this higher goal.