Yes there’s a point. The point is you spend more money, put yourself in more debt, more stress about paying it off, more years of school, but at least you get to write Dr. in front of your name. 

For some reason everyone takes a Dr. more seriously in everything they say, even if what they’re saying is “I don’t know, but it must be aliens.” (History Channel reference.) 

For some professions getting your PhD is like stuffing your pants with a tube sock, for other’s it’s a requirement. When someone says they’re going to school for psychology and they have no plans for graduate school I’m lost, as a journalism major getting a PhD in journalism is that metaphorical sock in my pants (or maybe tissues in my bra). 

I don’t know why I’m considering graduate school again, I thought I had snuffed that flame out a long time ago with my backup plan and my back up plan’s back up plan but again, today I’ve started to reassess my previous decision to remove myself from the academic world once I walked across that stage to get my BA. 

God only knows but maybe this has something to do with my earlier dream of being a college professor, or maybe it’s fear driving back into the arms of academia; either way I’m running out of time to make my decisions.