Chap wrote:Most anyone who can pass an undergraduate degree at a respectable level, and can continue the underpaid slog for a few more years under a competent supervisor can write a PhD dissertation that will get passed. Genius is not required. The whole graduate school business is just a rite of passage or apprenticeship, and anyone who has been around a university for long learns not to expect too much by way of brilliance from someone just because they got throught the PhD mill.
Oh, believe me, being involved in it myself, I agree that obtaining a PhD is more about patience than brilliance. LOL
Even so, it does involve a lot of duly noted hoops to jump through. LOL
Chap wrote:Most anyone who can pass an undergraduate degree at a respectable level, and can continue the underpaid slog for a few more years under a competent supervisor can write a PhD dissertation that will get passed. Genius is not required. The whole graduate school business is just a rite of passage or apprenticeship, and anyone who has been around a university for long learns not to expect too much by way of brilliance from someone just because they got throught the PhD mill.
Oh, believe me, being involved in it myself, I agree that obtaining a PhD is more about patience than brilliance. LOL
Even so, it does involve a lot of duly noted hoops to jump through. LOL
Well, good luck and I hope you find the result satisfying!
Chap wrote:Most anyone who can pass an undergraduate degree at a respectable level, and can continue the underpaid slog for a few more years under a competent supervisor can write a PhD dissertation that will get passed. Genius is not required. The whole graduate school business is just a rite of passage or apprenticeship, and anyone who has been around a university for long learns not to expect too much by way of brilliance from someone just because they got throught the PhD mill.
Oh, believe me, being involved in it myself, I agree that obtaining a PhD is more about patience than brilliance. LOL
Even so, it does involve a lot of duly noted hoops to jump through. LOL
Well, good luck and I hope you find the result satisfying!
Thanks, Chap! :) I'm kind of at a point where I really can't move any further career-wise until I do this, so I suppose I'm "stuck in the mill", as it were. LOL
No one has asked me for my opinion on Will's antics so I thought I'd share them anyways as unsolicited commentary is always the most welcome.
I find what he says tasteless and some of it crass and uninventive but also sometimes hilarious. Watching him and others reactions to him can be very comedic, kinda like watching the Three Stooges playing around with chainsaws.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
Tell you what, when anyone who holds a doctorate starts to call me Dr. AntiShock8 I'll reciprocate. Personally, I think anyone who feels the need to be called a doctor is up his or her own ass, but it is free country...
As far as the shennanigans go, as long as the person who is the shennaniger is on your team you'll be humored by him. If you're the shennanigee or on the other team you'll most likely feel upset. L'enfer, c'est les autres.
I should clarify one point lest I give the wrong impression. While I find much of Will's stuff not to my taste and crasser then I'd like compared to many posters here he is remarkably tame. *cough* Merc Porter Infy Shockie *cough*
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
The Nehor wrote:I should clarify one point lest I give the wrong impression. While I find much of Will's stuff not to my taste and crasser then I'd like compared to many posters here he is remarkably tame. *cough* Merc Porter Infy Shockie *cough*
I do apologize for rising to yours, the talking carcass', and Will's level of discourse. I'll try to refrain in the future.
edited for grammar: Thanks The Nehor
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The Nehor wrote:I should clarify one point lest I give the wrong impression. While I find much of Will's stuff not to my taste and crasser then I'd like compared to many posters here he is remarkably tame. *cough* Merc Porter Infy Shockie *cough*
I do apologize for bringing your, the talking carcass, and Will's level of discourse down to my level.. I'll try to refrain in the future.
Fixed.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo