Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/26
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I'm not sure if this was touched on, but when I was in grad school, the
terms were B.S. (bullshit), M.S. ("more shit"), and then, Ph.D ("piled
higher, and deeper!")....
ps. My masters thesis was on the identification of mosquito vectors of the
dog heartworm in Nebraska! What a hoot that was!! KPeters
- -----Original Message-----
From: Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 4:46 PM
Subject: [Leica] PhD qualifications
>"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
>