re: The IM Thread now, I guess: Aight boyyys, I can't watch the game tomorrow

Good luck. A PhD is no easy task. Lots of research and long hours of just looking at nothing. On second thought, the latter part makes it seem easy.

Drinking Four Roses Yellow Label.

Yep. Wasted tons of hours staring at absolutely nothing. Realized those projects were fruitless and moved on, and that was my major professor's research projects.

Seriously, get your PhD, find a good academic job that has solid travel and retirement benefits and call it a day.

Drinking a Lanier Special, mixing margaritas and hoping for the dirty sex.

I'd rather pound my balls with a mallet than listen to that.

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And none of that dirty stuff.

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Quitter

This has already been addressed

I know nothing of this "actual employment" of which you speak



(Though I will say, in a year or two I'll have a Master of Divinity from Emory, which, though it's typically the "preacher degree" (in which I have less than zero interest), finding a non-churchy job with one of those isn't hard. I will also have no student loans so I won't have as much of an immediate financial burden.

I'm also proceeding through my graduate studies keeping in touch with faculty from a couple different colleges/universities around here, figuring out what I need to do to maximize my employment potential after I get my PhD. That's one of the reasons I'm hopefully doing my doctoral work in Europe -- degrees from the European system are typically more versitile in their use than are American PhDs.

And ideally a resume that includes "degree from Emory," "3.75+ GPA," "worked as a research assistant," and "studied in Germany under so-and-so" should help me get into a big-name school where employment opportunities are much greater coming out than would be a degree at a state university. About the only other thing I need to make sure I get done in the next two years is work on getting published, which should come naturally if everything goes as planned.)