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I
was told in the early 1980s that to survive at
JHU as something other than premed/prelaw, you would have to
become a de facto graduate student. I think that
was for the most part true. At that time,
you needed to be exceptionally well-motivated to get the most
out of the school. I put myself through with
a combination of scholarships and work-study, was a course away
from a double masters in mathematics and engineering after four
years of study and, after doing contract work for two
years in various fields, returned to get an Ivy League
PHD on full fellowship at another institution. So it
was a success by that measure. I actually did
the bulk of my dissertation research as a research assistant
at JHU prior to even attending the PhD program.
I was presenting as a first year grad student at
the same conferences my professors were. The PhD coursework
was not significantly more challenging than what I took at
JHU, so grad school was a more pleasant experience.
The freedom to design your own program at JHU allowed
a student to make themselves unique and thus more desirable
on the grad school/job market (or gave the student enough
rope to hang themselves, depending upon the experience).
That was
the good news about JHU. The bad news was
that being a de facto grad student meant you became
cynical well before your time, and JHU's policies for faculty
and research (JHU was primarily a research institute with a
small all-too-necessary educational component) made it easy to become very
cynical indeed. The social situation was abysmal, but that
was during the transition period as women were just starting
to trickle into places like JHU instead of being segregated
into Goucher, and between that and the sex/drug/rock hangover from
the 60s/70s it was a bit of a mess everywhere.
But 60% premed/prelaw student body didn't help the situation...folks
were so focused on their career (careerists/yuppies before there was
even a term for it) that there wasn't the critical
mass for a naturally evolving social scene to arise that
motivated students needed for any sort of healthy emotional development.
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