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What exactly is the point of getting a PhD in anything other than STEM or psychology?

>> No.16468020
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>>16467995
fun

>> No.16468025

Law

>> No.16468029

>>16467995
>all those jews at Columbia
topkek like pottery

>> No.16468046

oh, that guy is cute

>> No.16468060

>>16468020
>pay $200,000 to study political science for 8 years because it’s fun
You can just get a library card and watch ivy league lectures on YouTube. If you’re really autistic you can spend all your free time pouring over dissertations online for free. It saves money and you walk away with the same amount of knowledge

>> No.16468110

>>16468060
haha, nope also cope

>> No.16468117

>>16468060
Based

>> No.16468148
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>>16468110
>haha, nope also cope

>> No.16468150

>>16467995
Why psychology specifically, though?
It's a bogus ((science))

>> No.16468163

>>16468060
only in the US it's expensive. In Europe (even in Turkey) it's free or very cheap.
If I were an American and want to really, really pursue an academic career, I'd just get a CELTA, save 2000ish bucks, and move to Europe. Teaching English while doing a PhD for free (and even save up).

>> No.16468166

>>16468060
Kek, no one in his right mind would pay for a PhD. They literally pay you, and if they don't, you shouldn't be doing it

>> No.16468173

>>16468150
It’s essentially a degree in counseling, so at least it serves a functional purpose. What function does a phd in philosophy serve?

>> No.16468187

>>16467995
I don't know anymore. I used to think it was requisite for something. Yet I see nothing bt parading and pomp. 70 year olds acting like children hiding behind pseudonyms and coded names that could have been made on the back of a cereal box.. none of it is higher then the horizon so I can only look down. Now there is no hope besides the twisted delight in seeing this miserable machine work. Watching it step from name to name number to number I cannot stop myself from laughing. Even if I pull the corners of my mouth down my eyes still tear up to see them fulfill my expectations. I have long chosen a fake name of my own long before I knew the others where fake and so I weight for the day that I can make others laugh as I did.

>> No.16468191

>>16468173
It gets you a job.

>It’s essentially a degree in counseling
You want to be a witch-doctor in 21st century? Go ahead.

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>>16468110
good point, anon. nothing good is easy
tho u really unsettled this lost redditor >>16468148 haha hope xhe has a support system

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>>16468191
>It gets you a job.
Teaching other philosophy majors, continuing the cycle of “why bother?”

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>>16468110
>>16468210
>talking to yourself

>> No.16468232

>>16468060
>If you’re really a total Chad you can spend all your free time pouring over dissertations online for free.
FTFY

>> No.16468243

>>16468211
because you need to pay the rent, that's why. Also, it's not hard labour, you get to be around hot young girls, get free coffee, etc. Get paid to read and discuss books. It's a good job.

>> No.16468260

Just do whatever the hell you wanna do
Don't seek validation

>> No.16468267

>>16467995
Because you can't be a professor in those fields without one.

>> No.16468271

>>16468060
They pay you, retard. You don't pay them.

>> No.16468297

>>16468224
cope

>> No.16468308

>>16468297
shut up!

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People who get advanced degrees in humanities generally spend so much time locked in the ivory tower of academia that they forget how the real world works. They spend all of their time tilting at windmills and theorizing about problems that don’t actually exist in any significant way. Pic related was just one part of a rant posted by my friend’s gf who is currently working on her PhD in Political Science from fucking Berkeley

>> No.16468322

>>16468297
>>16468308
Are you new here?

>> No.16468327

>>16468313
What the fuck is that word salad in the picture. Islam is right about women.

>> No.16468334

>>16468271
doesn’t change the fact that the amount of knowledge you walk away with isn’t impressive

>> No.16468339

>>16468313
"Justice" is the most vapid, irredeemable word in English today.

>> No.16468343

>>16468313
That shit is scary. I studied humanities but went into business due to it being more financially rewarding and less constraining. It worries me that there are those out there willing to hear out your friends GF (and platform her) while I'm just an apparatus of oppression.

>> No.16468346

>>16468327
I would just like to reiterate that this person is almost done with her PhD at UC fucking Berkeley

>> No.16468352

>>16468339
It's a shame, really. The notion that underlies "justice" is so pure, and yet its purity is what makes the signifier so potent. It's something we all yearn for. Something we all want. Something we desperately need. Yet, it is that desire and necessity that makes it so vulnerable to misuse as a sociopolitical bludgeon.

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>UC fucking Berkeley

>> No.16468358

>>16468354
Academia is a joke

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>>16468334
t. lazybones

>> No.16468376

>>16468322
>still in cope mode
lmfaoof

>> No.16468378

>>16468334
Get your GED *then* talk shit, brainlet.

>> No.16468385

>>16467995
>or psychology
>psychology
Anon, I...

>> No.16468392

i mean working 8 years in an office job is probably worse....

>> No.16468396

>>16468385
Based

>> No.16468397

>>16467995
>be me
>be 22
>be in archaeology phd
>covid bullshit closes university
>never talk to my advisor again after seeing what we did to academia for a lie
why live bros ?

>> No.16468407

>>16468397
For reasons other than meaningless surrogate activities?

>> No.16468414

>>16468397
The saving grace of covid, watching the ambitious get rekt.

>> No.16468420

>>16468397
damn g the future archeologists gonna be studyin yo bones if you think covid is a lie!

>> No.16468422

>>16468414
fucking die you lardass priece of shit killing us because the cold cucks you

>> No.16468423

>>16468420
I fucking wish this shit was killing people cause the I'd at least have a job as a gravedigger

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cheer up, anons :3

>> No.16468454

>>16468422
The Chinese flu affects me this year not.
A NEET I am, of the unworking lot.