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Watt said for ence," he said. his entire university, the "I'm not yet in "We just need to stand up debt burden on graduate despair, but it is and say we're not that expenstudents is 400 percent since tough." sive and we make money," 1990. He told students to Watt said. beware of promises of fundStephen Watt, Of the last challenge to ing in two to three years Indiana University the humanities, Watt said because budgets change and professor faculty need to learn to get these promises aren't sure along. He said he's heard things. war stories from humanities Graham added that deans about languages and English departgraduate students should apply for any scrap of ments. external funding they can find. "How do you keep a preening academic While the amount of years most humanicockatoo from preening?" Watt asked. ties study programs take to complete cannot These department wars often involve be shortened much, Watt said there are things research funds and arguments over basic ideas, students can do to maximize their time. He said but Watt said the faculty members need to learn being able to "hit the ground running" helps. to get a long because they "can't survive on an Watt said many humanities courses of study internal gridlock." have foreign language requirements, and if "This requires people to be sane and not students have these done beforehand it can sigdelusional, and that's a challenge. I know that," nificantly reduce the amount of time they spend Watt said, to laughs from the crowd. in a doctoral program. Also, he said to look for Watt gave advice to anyone looking to go programs whose faculty are honest. to graduate school. Students should look at a "I tell my students disappointment starts school's placement rate. 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