The Life of the Mind
Just in case there happen to be any PhD. or prospective PhD. students among our readers, a word of warning: the real courage is not the courage to finish the PhD., it's the courage to abandon the PhD.
What can you look forward to? Promotion? In Richard Russo's Straight Man the main character, an aging professor of an English Department in some mid level U.S. state university, looks back over his life and bluntly states "promotion in an institution like West Central Pennsylvania University was a little like being proclaimed the winner of a shit-eating contest."
You've been warned.
PS. Some our staff may have received or be in the process of receiving their PhDs. Some are happier than others. But all agree that warning you, dear reader, is the right thing to do.
What can you look forward to? Promotion? In Richard Russo's Straight Man the main character, an aging professor of an English Department in some mid level U.S. state university, looks back over his life and bluntly states "promotion in an institution like West Central Pennsylvania University was a little like being proclaimed the winner of a shit-eating contest."
You've been warned.
PS. Some our staff may have received or be in the process of receiving their PhDs. Some are happier than others. But all agree that warning you, dear reader, is the right thing to do.
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