Of numbers and letters (The latter are M,A,P,H, and D)

Abstract

The life of the Canadian graduate student in history is a pampered one. There is no denying it.Yet at the same time, graduate studies – doctoral studies, especially – become for many individuals a source of great anxiety, of great anguish. It is not so much the historian’s investigation of the past that poses difficulties, for the frustrations of the archives and the pain of writing tend to be amply compensated by the delight of discovery and joy of understanding. It is, rather, thoughts of the future that prove disheartening.