With Both Hands
Sign in Subscribe

PhD

PhD Glut

This is sort of thing is usually discussed scoffingly over at the PhysicsForums, but there is a massive over-supply of PhDs. When even Nature is publishing articles on the subject, something has to give. There have been some attempts to reform the Ponzi scheme nature of grad school in the
Benjamin Espen Apr 23, 2011

Why Tim Walker Probably Will Not Finish His PhD

Tim Walker has a good sense of perspective on the academic goal he abandoned for greener pastures: What I Was Thinking When I Started From the time that I was a boy, I always assumed that I would be “Dr. Walker.” Through about the 8th or 9th grade, I thought
Benjamin Espen Aug 28, 2010

Subscribe to With Both Hands

Vampires! Oswald Spengler! Spelling Reform! Watch out.
  • Sign up
Copyright © 2023 With Both Hands Publishing, LLC, Copyright © 2009 - 2023, Benjamin I. Espen. All rights reserved. Blog content from The Long View Copyright © 1996 - 2012 John J. Reilly.