Even artichokes have doubts

Marina Keegan:

If this year is anything like the last 10, around 25 percent of employed Yale graduates will enter the consulting or finance industry*. This is a big deal. This is a huge deal. This is so many people! This is one-fourth of our people! Regardless of what you think or with whom you're interviewing, we ought to be pausing for a second to ask why.

I don't pretend to know anymore about this world than the rest of us. In fact, I probably know less. (According to the Internet, a consultant is "someone who consults someone or something.") But I do know that this statistic is utterly and entirely shocking to me. In a place as diverse and disparate as Yale, it's remarkable that such a large percentage of people are doing anything the same -- not to mention something as significant as their postgraduate plans.

I want to understand.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 5, 2011 1:55 AM
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