Academics: Are you *proud* of your PhD thesis, or do you regard it as "oh gods thank goodness that is done but please no one read it"? #academicchatter #PhD #academia - ThreadSky

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elusieum.bsky.social • 26 days ago

Academics: Are you *proud* of your PhD thesis, or do you regard it as "oh gods thank goodness that is done but please no one read it"?

#academicchatter #PhD #academia

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drsethlee.bsky.social•26 days ago

Proud it was done. Even revised it into a book I was proud to write. However, I’ve grown a lot since then and written other things.

bordertroubles.bsky.social•26 days ago

Proud of work I did, got one good article out of it (one that resonated w/ people any time discussed), but most likely won’t return to it and glad it’s over. Had a 2 year postdoc to develop a new project and get some distance.

nancydrhodes.bsky.social•26 days ago

I was more in the glad it’s done camp, but I’ve done a lot of work since then that I’m very proud of. I am proud of the degree.

drbethany.bsky.social•26 days ago

It was fine.

I actually had a dream the other night that Trump officials went through my office looking for evidence that I was doing DEI, and instead found my dissertation and started reading it aloud. They were laughing at the dumb parts in chapter 3 (which I do remember being the weakest!)

elusieum.bsky.social•26 days ago

That sounds like an absolute nightmare!

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