Ten graduate students in English attack their graduate (M.A. and Ph.D.) experiences which they consider to be narrow and demeaning. They point to intellectual, financial, and personal difficulties which beset them, as well as petty, unnecessary rigors and delays to which they are subjected and which often prolonged graduation. They speak of drudgery and a worship of scholarship which, for the most part, overlooks a personal discovery of art and the search for meaning. The students also condemn the dilemma of the graduate student-teacher, the lack of preparation for teaching freshmen composition courses, and discrimination against women in graduate schools. (MF)