The PhD problem: are we giving out too many degrees?

[RACER X]

Sure it can

My guess, there are alot more "poor"people wishing they were "rich" vs the opposite

[defector]

This thread got me thinking about the two biggest BS things I had to sit through in school.
The College Degree is a must speech, and the DARE to keep kids off drugs speech.
I would wager I wasted a collective 6 weeks of my life with this crap.

[derf]

http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2011/apr/GradVitzhum

hows this for a degree? 19 years

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by RACER X

Sure it can

My guess, there are alot more "poor"people wishing they were "rich" vs the opposite

Only because once you've been sucked into the ratrace, you convince yourself that you're on the track to success. Somehow, though, success is just over that next rise, for the rest of your life. It's sort of like how once someone has shelled out that $12.00 for the summer blockbuster, that's actually absolute shit, they just don't want to admit to their friends (or themselves) that it really was shit and they wasted that $12.00.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by derf

http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2011/apr/GradVitzhum

hows this for a degree? 19 years

Dont let drewpy see that, he doesnt need any other ideas to stay in school

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Adeptus_Minor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-udsIV4Hmc

20 minutes, but WELL worth watching.
Yes, all of you. (or skip to 10 minutes in for the real meat of the lecture)

Definitely worth the watch. Thanks.

[pauldun170]

I went to college in the early 90's and I went back from 2007 to 2010 because I was bored.
My wife went to state university in early to mid 90's and my younger sister is currently doing her MBA program. I've stuck my nose in my sisters course work and I've went through my wifes old stuff (she kept just about all her stuff).

4.0 GPA students by today's standards are 2.5 GPA students using yesterdays standards at best. I was friendly with the some of the faculty where I went and they had TONS to say about students nowadays. I've also seen plenty of my classmates work and I'd be embarrassed to turn in some of the things I saw.

Phd programs on the other hand...too many of them bitches got bad skin. I know you research baby but "hot damn!" hit a gym and eat a carrot or sum'ten. Make sure moisturize immediately after you finish showering and not when you get to the bedroom.
On top of that...you gotta do something besides go for a run...you are losing that nice ass you had as an undergrad.

[dReWpY]

did you know that there is a direct relationship between success/income and a drop in sex life and the feeling of satisfaction, you get caught in this must try a little harder, must make the next rung in the ladder, my car can be just one year newer... etc.

since dropping the subaru and its payments/insurance etc. i got a 96 jeep cherokee that cost about as much as a clutch job on the WRX and couldnt be happier, i actually get to have a bit of a life again and to see my gf more then just at night when i come home at 5 am or when i first wake up

[RACER X]

There also a direct relationship between higher income and lower divorces whereas lower income -more divorces and more "baby daddy"

[RACER X]

http://m.jezebel.com/5540922/low+inc...ivorce-but-why