> > aren't we already up to our necks in Baudillarian hyerpreality, Donal > Trump is president the USA ffs.
that's Baud*r*illarian, certainly not Baudelairian, and Donal Trump isn't the US president, it's some other guy with bad hair.... So - the only reasons I can think of to study at PhD level are personal > ones: the knowledge (and possibly even a glimmer of wisdom) itself - the > joy of discovering something new, the conviction that one didn't simply > mark time through life. I would agree, but only if it's not at one's own financial expense ; ) On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 6:42 AM, David Pickett <d...@fugato.com> wrote: > At 20:06 17-08-17, Phi Shu wrote: > > >Just curious, why do you want to do a PhD at all? are you planning on > being > >an academic? > > It is a relatively recent requirement of academics that they hold a PhD > before being allowed into the profession. In my own case, I elected to do a > PhD in order to be able to answer the questions I had about the subject > material in a disciplined and rigorous manner. I realised from the start > that, were I not to have employed the framework of a PhD, I should never > have achieved anything. That said, the structure of my work and the thesis > owed little to any previous models. Acquiring a PhD in a slightly different > field from that in which I was engaged as an academic had absolutely no > effect on my career development. > > It never ceases to amaze me how many PhD candidates have NO idea what they > want to research before they register for the degree. Given that the thesis > is at the heart of it all (and in my case was the only requirement for > award of the degree), this is amazing. These are the candidates who want a > PhD solely because they want to enter the academy and, since they often > seem to have no independent ideas in their heads, I wonder whether they > should be allowed in. > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, > edit account or options, view archives and so on. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20170820/add5d38b/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
