/lit/ - Literature

better than living with your fucking parents

>>14846344
>implying PhDcucks can afford to live on their own

HOLY COPE

>>14846337
Doing a PhD seems pretty cozy and /lit/ desu. I might have considered it if i had a higher IQ and was guaranteed a job after.

I agree desu but I can’t name a single philosopher from the last 200 years who wasn’t at least a doctoral student.

>>14846337
At least I have a fucking piece of paper that proves that I have read better and more than you, have written more efficiently than you and am overral better than you.

>>14846337
your TA didn’t like your term paper huh?

>>14846337
> six years
Where do you reside? It's 8 in most places.

it's okay anon, you can reapply next cycle. you'll get in someday!

>>14846415
>>14846337
I did it in 5, homos

>>14846337
Since when did /lit/ become the academia board? I don't give a shit what you morons are studying in school, read a book and make a post about it for fuck's sake.

>>14846415
>>14846337
i thought thats just if u did it part time. in the uk u finish in 3-4 fulltime

>>14846370
hello

>>14846337
PhD is ego inflation except for the select few studies. It's so niggers can say they've got a PhD on bumble.

>>14846943
It's pretty funny how many people say they have PhDs nowadays, it's like 1 in every 8 Bumble thots because they don't give a shit that they're going $500k into debt to work like a slave for a low-ranked institution whose doctorates are worth less than some BAs.

PhD means absolutely nothing. It's like when people say law school but they mean some really low-ranked one that's practically a diploma mill, it means nothing.

>>14846943
>>14847038
Absolutely agree. I'd rather brag about being some sort of erudite than brag about some bullshit PhD that shows I studied in a school for over half a decade.

>>14846379
>and am overral better than you

im doin a masters. now that's fun shit. u get to specialize to the subfield you want, dont spend too long or too much, its impressive to a good many people and not just sad like hearing someone say phd.

phd just sounds lonely

>>14846379
lol, shame logic wasn't in any of your curricula, because it "proves" none of that.

>>14846379
even if thats true nobody else thinks it tho. if u say u have a phd any intelligent person would feel sad for you and anyone else just thinks ur a teacher.

>>14846943
Which studies are the select few?

>>14846415
I finished mine in 3

>>14846337
Got my degree for free and am working for just around 100k a year. I'm not even a professor but the ride was too easy to do, I basically fell ass backwards into it but then again this thread looks like a giant cope from some burnout that could not make it.

>>14846337
I’m doing my PhD in Classics, and there is a lot of the loser burnout cope here. There’s also some really cool people and autistic nerds. But I mean, what I else am I going to do. Slave for shekelstein? I’ll get a solid stipend and my families pretty well off so I’ll be able to survive.

>>14846337
based

I wonder just how high the percentage of phds there are by people with zero interest in their actual work but solely focused on getting that title.

how hard is getting a masters/phd? i heard it more about effort and persistence than being smrt. i have basically no persistence but in some sense i already know what to write / what to explore for my masters thesis. halp me because its a long term project

>>14846923
I didn't know. Just how based this Deleuze was...

>>14848931
All degrees are more a product of effort and interest in a field than they are of competence