Hey, Stefan, can you hear me okay?

I can hear you just fine. How you doing?

Pretty good. I'm, other than being a little sick here, I apologize. I caught something funky

a few days ago.

Oh, no, no problem at all. We've all been there. I've given speeches with half my brain pouring

out my sinuses, so no sweat.

Excellent. Well, I'm very honored that you invited me on just to, I guess you're really

interested what grad school is like in philosophy now. Sure, I'd love to hear. Are we beginning?

Yes, it's a public call, of course, so just stay off names and places, and we're good to go.

Okay, so, yeah off names and places, and we're good to go. Okay, do.

So, yeah, I'm currently in my second year grad school philosophy.

I guess we can start with the general format of grad school.

I'm sure you format of grad school.

I'm sure you took a history grad school, which was a seminar format, correct?

Yeah, it was mostly classes, a lot of reading and some group projects and that kind of stuff. And then a final thesis that went on and on and on as you know.

So go ahead.

Right.

Yeah, I would say philosophy is really similar in that regard.

So most of the courses have been like in a round table seminar format where each week we are assigned readings and

we study that and we go to class.

A professor usually will give a brief lecture and then there'll be open discussion.

Now it really depends on how the professor approaches this.

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