Look, before applying to graduate school, it is bloody important to ask yourself this question: "So what the hell am I going to do with that?" This damn question will come to you from your family, friends, gf/bf, and your proposed supervisor(s) all the way through before, during and after your graduate school years. It is far too easy to think of hundreds of 'model' answer. No. 1 on the list: "I don't know." No. 2: "Will see." No. 3: "Kill time." No. 4: "I wanna be a professor." Don't be silly!
No matter what your answer(s) is/are, read this easy and interesting book: "So what are you going to do with that?": finding careers outside academia by Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius (Chicago: University of Chicago press, 2007, rev. ed.).
