There's No Stopping the Cretins From Hop...erm, Getting PhDs
There is a certain portion of the American population that is, on its best day, suspicious of higher education. Those folks regard their fellow, matriculated, citizens as arrogant; elitist; lacking in common sense, or, indeed, any knowledge of demonstrable utility; or with a variation of “too smart for their own good.”
A doctoral dissertation studying air guitar doesn't help.
Turning what is little more than a limited, if not limiting, sort of self expression into serious academic inquiry is precisely what the non-eggheads in this world complain about and what serious scholars laugh at. When I finished my master’s, I wasn’t so much proud as I was enormously relieved. Relieved that the pain would finally end, and that it would end because of my hard work and not a .38 to the temple.
Crap like air guitar dissertations are, frankly, an insult to anyone who sacrificed to produce graduate work.
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WTF? What's next, "Variety:
WTF? What's next, "Variety: Alternate Theories of Masturbation, Mental and Other"?
Given that my Dad went through three advisors for his doctorate, and each change caused him to have to start over with a newly approved topic, I find myself wondering more about who her advisor is on the matter.
What ho?
"...chair of pop music..."? Exsqueeze me?
Yup - it's a conspiracy to prove that all those who take education lightly might just be correct.
Well said.
Well said.
You'll notice that one of those profs supervised a dissertation on moshing.
You wanna learn about a pit? Get in it, Sally.