Just Don't Do It: A Fractured and Irreverent Look at the Ph.D. Culture

With devastatingly caustic tongue-in-cheek humor and probing insights, Dr. Grobman gives readers ample reasons not to get a Ph.D.from the excessive time invested (45 years, in one case) and callousness of professors and dissertation committees, to vision of students wandering around campus in a catatonic state known as ABD ( All But Dissertation). He presents numerous anecdotessome sad, some hilariousabout what happens when people succeed at getting a doctorateand when they dont.