Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] PhD qualifications
From: Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:34:41 -0700

"Doug McLernon" <Douglas.McLernon@tcd.ie> wrote:
>When I was completing my doctorate many years ago, one of 
>my supervisors brought me down to earth with the comment, 
>" Because of the requirement of originality, most PhDs are 
>experts in a subject so important that nobody else has 
>bothered to research it".

I just defended my dissertation... that is so true.
At least it's over :-).

Graduate school: learning more and more about less and less, 
until you know everything about nothing. 

Also, see:

http://photo.net/philg/careers/octopus.html
and
http://photo.net/philg/careers/four-random-people.tcl
and
http://photo.net/philg/careers.html

- -Alexey
http://www.clearcut.net