Reminds me of:
As someone with a PhD, I can confirm both images are accurate.
This is literally true because you cannot get a PhD if you don’t learn to navigate University politics, which is the singular largest corrupting influence in academia. If you fail to do that, they literally give you a Masters as a consolation prize for preserving your integrity.
I beat the system by skipping the Master’s on the way to my PhD and then not getting the PhD in the end. Smoked a hell of a lot of dope, though.
You sound like you know from experience
The reason I have a PhD is because I was about to drop out and get a real job, when one of our papers won an award and I backed my way into a thesis defense with a 30 page dissertation because it made my advisor look good.
If you want a read about the humanities in particular, here’s a history PhD’s commentary on his experience: https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-to-grad-school-in-the-academic-humanities/
Eh, maybe. It’ll probably be less relevant for me because the humanities are basically all politics, there’s very little way to just “get results.”
But i’ll probably still give it a read, it’s bound to be helpful.
Edit: did read, was depressing… I wonder how similar the experience is in a STEM program? I’m sure the advice of “choose your advisor carefully” applies, but at least internships are pretty common so you can ‘test drive’ your advisor somewhat.
Since a part of the funding the humanities are starved of is directed to STEM, it may be less arduous there. Problems of sexism won’t be much better, but maybe at least closer to the societal norm, which might be the most depressing sentence I’ve written in a while.
What do you mean with “get results”, by the way?
What do you mean with “get results”
Publications, patents, grant funding…
Basically the sort of stuff that’s politically useful to your university and advisor regardless of any personality conflicts you may have
Master Roshi is a massive pervert though.
Doctor Who Vs The Master. Hmm. Have we been watching a show about a villain all along?
Even the The Doctor acknowledges that sometimes he does things that end up being evil in the end. The master doesn’t care he just wants his best friend back.
Anakin had neither (╥﹏╥)
if you leave out some letters from “Darth” out, tho…
Is it dart?
Or art?
You’re really keeping me in suspense.
i strongly dislike you right now lol
Truly a self made man.
Well… Victor Frankenstein wasn’t a doctor in the book; he was a young student and he never achieved any degree. The “doctor” thing comes from the movies.
I also dispute whether he was a villain.
I recall in superior spider-man Dr. Oct gets into Peter’s body. He gets so pissed when he learns Peter never finished his phd that goes and finish it for him
So true, who thinks ‘I want 10x more of that’ after the masters dissertation?. You think 'I need a vacation but I have no money and live in moms basement now
But that’s another story…
I had a scholarship for the Ph.D. If it’s free, it’s for me. 7 years of pure suffering for FREE!
What’d it get you? A sense of pride and accomplishment?
Pretty much. Call me Dr. Washedupcynic. My current field doesn’t use my degree. Graduated in 2008 during the recession. Could not find a job in my field, so leveraged my degree to get into a weakly adjacent field. It’s wild getting calls from places I applied to in 2012 in my field trying to pitch me positions that pay less than what I make now, in a position that doesn’t require an advanced degree.
Free? I get paid for it, most PhD “students” here are university employees. I have to do some tutoring, but I can also get students that work for me.
Still sounds like a job but good on you!
I feel bad for Master Baits tho
No it feels good bro
Doctors Strange and Who will co-author a paper that differs.
Dr. Strange while “good” is a asshole
He’s a surgeon. So, yeah.
Sending this to my wife who stopped her PhD program due to shitty advisors and ended up with a Master’s instead
Professor X, Bruce Banner (Hulk), T’Challa (Black Panther), Hank Pym (Ant-Man), and several others also have PhDs.
Hank Pym made Ultron, T’Challa’s a king whose country hordes potentially life saving tech, Banner needs to chill, and Xavier has done and continued to do some insanely unethical shit
All telepaths should die
Leave Manhunter alone.
He respects consent he’s fine
I don’t know what Professor X’s doctorate is in, but it sure as hell wasn’t ethics.
Tony Stark (Iron Man), Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic), Hank McCoy (Beast from X-Men), Doctor Light (even has the Doctor in his name!) are more good guys with PhDs.
Uh… Doctor Light is, um… maybe don’t read Identity Crisis.
As for the others, Beast is probably the only one who doesn’t have some shadiness going on.
EDIT: Are you referring to the Doctor Light from Mega Man?
As for the others, Beast is probably the only one who doesn’t have some shadiness going on.
You probably don’t want to look at what Beast was up to during his time on Krakoa.
Are you referring to the Doctor Light from Mega Man?
Very likely. He made Megaman(or Rock), Roll, Rush, Proto, and X. I looked up the other Dr Light and he’s a villain from DC lol.
Beast is probably the only one who doesn’t have some shadiness going on
I dunno, I’m a bit skeptical about Mythical Kitchen.
Bachelor of Death and Destruction reporting in.
You need a good guy with phd to stop the bad guy with phd
Doofenshmirtz bought his PhD online.