Hasta La Ideas

“To get a Master’s Degree in ID, or not.” That is the question currently under debate in the Students & Schools section of the Core boards, kicked off by a reader asking whether it’s better to get a job and some real-world experience after undergrad, or stay in school to build those “skills and connections.”

Of course it’s an intensely personal question and no two people are likely to have the same experience, but it is interesting to see what the range of those experiences are. This being the internet, this topic has raised the expected amount of mindless knee-jerk responses (“Do it,” “Don’t do it”), but thankfully there are enough experienced and patient Core77 readers to sound off with more nuanced discussion of the ramifications. Dive in with your own two cents, or just lurk, here.

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