Don't do a postgraduate degree – until you've read this

By Helen Crane. It's tough, it's exhausting and it'll leave you broke. But I'm glad I opted to do it, says Helen Crane, who did a postgrad degree. It happens at about this time every year. With dissertation deadlines looming, energy-drink dependence reaching critical levels and the library fast becoming a second home, the undergraduate's mind turns to an even more terrifying issue: "What am I going to do when it's all over?" More...