The dropout problem : an interpretive history /
David L. Angus · OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) · 1966
It is customary in this place to acknowledge the contribution which others have made to the completion of the work at hand, but the debts which I have accumulated in the past few years go far beyond the context of this writing.Graduate study is a trying experience.Perhaps only graduate students themselves can know precisely what is meant by the term, "graduate student syndrome," that feeling of constant guilt which accompanies activity when so many different activities make equally legitimate demands on one's time.To feel guilty about spending time with one's children, engaging in physical exercise, reading a book that has not been assigned (or even one that has), preparing a lesson for the next day's class, or working on the dissertation-to feel guilty about each of these because one should be doing one of the others-is to know the graduate student syndrome first hand.The problem is one of the priority of values, and if a graduate student needs help it is in sorting out the responsibilities which compete for his time and in finding understanding when his choice fails to coincide with the expectations of those around him.For this help and this ■understanding, I wish to express my deepest gratitude to my ii