The PhD is the same: everyone lied to the recent buy-ins about their likelihood of success.
Everyone is responsible for their own stupid decisions and we should laugh and throw rocks at Woke PhDs on welfare.
But let's not forget how the boomers royally fucked over their juniors. Do you know the surest sign of a bubble? FRAUD.
Can you imagine getting a PhD and being unemployed? I\u2019d be pissed, bitter, angry at the world. I would spend my time convincing others to feel the same way.
— FURU\u2019R\u2019F\u2019 (@1withdirt) January 16, 2021
The PhD is the same: everyone lied to the recent buy-ins about their likelihood of success.
It was hard to figure this out because it wasn't on their website; I had to look up all the school's completed dissertations
So many completely hoodwink students into signing into PhD programs.
https://t.co/VoCDQ0O5u0
When I was working on my PhD our department brought in an outside group to evaluate the department and it was recommended they scrap the grad program. Advice was rejected because would result in faculty positions lost. So they keep churning them out.
— Max Castle, deposed former president (@realMaxCastle) January 15, 2021
https://t.co/UydGCW3AM1
I bombed a Skype interview two years ago because I said, "you _created_ a new PhD program?" Turns out it's nice to vote yourself RAs who will have terrible job prospects. Little sign of slowing, except for a few departments that took covid breaks.
— Evil (Political) Scientist (@knrd_z) January 15, 2021
This was a lie. Again I dug in and found 2 out of 15 their students got TT jobs. Of course, even Harvard PhDs are competing for those jobs; this was, say, U of Arkansas.
That's a lie. A story, whose details I'll change slightly, about a friend from undergrad named. Let's call him "Tom."
Every single professor told him that there is no way someone who goes to an elite program and writes a good book will go with a Professorship.
What happened? Well, according to his _advisor_, who never brought it up before, "it's a great book but _nobody will hire in economic history_."
His professors got seven years of relaxed teaching, he got a useless PhD.
It's fake. It lists adjunct jobs as TT, omits the 3/4 of students who don't get jobs, etc. It takes some digging to figure this all out. Tom's Postdoc is listed as TT still, two years after he left it.
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