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Chelmar
United States20 Posts
On September 14 2010 12:41 AppleTart wrote: But who cares, all of us are working together to push the boundaries farther. The only field where I am sorta even remotely meh about is PHD in History.... We need historians to explain the mistakes of the past. Then we can repeat them! | ||
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Navi
5286 Posts
 my phd dad also thinks that its quite relevant lol | ||
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MangoTango
United States3670 Posts
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newvsoldschool
428 Posts
Anyways, with that said, I am doing pretty well with my BA in Economics (yes, they are actually useful in this time, but I've been hired for jobs only on a seasonal basis, on a steady stream of gigs, but stable either way). I find that some acquaintances of mine are pursuing/pursued PhDs because they can't get enough of the nourishing environment that graduate schools can provide. I very nearly decided to take graduate school myself, but I really wanted to take on the world for what it is as soon as possible. And because I was offered a job before I even graduated. | ||
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rally_point
Canada458 Posts
chem engg grad here, but don't think I have the passion nor smarts to pursue anything post grad in this field. (right now I'm looking at the possibility of switching to... iPhone programming haha) | ||
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tryummm
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snorlax
United States755 Posts
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Zzoram
Canada7115 Posts
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Madcatcf
Vietnam77 Posts
Great pictures & explanation in the OP btw. | ||
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Mora
Canada5235 Posts
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Subversion
South Africa3627 Posts
On September 14 2010 10:59 Aberu wrote: Just looks another teacher trying to justify to themselves all of those years they spent getting a PhD. It's an interesting illustration, but it also runs off of this presumption that those with PhD's simply know more than those without PhD's. There are computer programmers I know that have far more knowledge having worked in the field for 30 years than these new young "whipper-snappers" could gain with a PhD in Comp Sci (if anyone even goes for that). wow dude, you completely missed the point of this. if anything, this guy was illustrating the LACK of significance of a PhD. | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
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illu
Canada2531 Posts
On September 14 2010 13:09 Roe wrote: this guy has a phd :d http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91IAiaoFZLg Damn it. I watched it until the end hoping he'd say he has a PhD in English or something. | ||
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Terranist
United States2496 Posts
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thedeadhaji
39489 Posts
On September 14 2010 11:56 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote: a PhD is where u give science a pimple kind of fitting when thinking of science's growing pains  | ||
cgrinker
United States3824 Posts
My motivation is that I'm not done learning yet, or more so that I'm not done learning in a colligate atmosphere. A masters doesn't really interest me except in the sense that if I need a break after this year I'll go that route. I sort of associate all master's degrees as professional degrees, and I'm not really interested in going into the industry. | ||
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DrTJEckleburg
United States1080 Posts
On September 14 2010 12:51 Chelmar wrote: We need historians to explain the mistakes of the past. Then we can repeat them! Haha, history doesn't repeat itself, but similar things do happen. I'm simply exercising my mind, doing lots of reading and writing, learning how to be ridiculously persuasive whether or not the facts support my thesis, and on the side I'm interpreting the past. Yes indeed, I am one of the "used-car salesman of academia", a historian. | ||
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Crushgroove
United States793 Posts
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dybydx
Canada1764 Posts
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Slaughter
United States20255 Posts
Im currently working towards this goal myself in Bio Anthropology. Its really a time sink but damn it is really cool and interesting. Seriously a lot of dedication though and I salute anyone who can maintain a normal social life for any extended period of time heh. PhD comics is awesome because its true (though not quite for me as im in the social sciences so its a different atmosphere at times). | ||
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