Getting through your dissertation with your peace of mind intact.

My favorite piece of writing on dissertations is this post by the writing center at UNC. It’s a favorite for a few reasons. It is very good advice, clearly presented, but it is also absurd as only real life can be absurd. That is two of my favorite things in one place.

Figure 1: To write a great dissertation become the Avatar.

The absurd comes from the fact that much of the advice could be labeled “How to live a perfect life”. The advice is not wrong or incorrect, soul-searching and managing your advisor are big steps toward having a successful dissertation, a successful professional career, and a happy life. It is good to know what you want and how to manage other people’s limitations, but those are lifelong skills.

Figure 2: The new plan is the old plan, master all four elements and the Avatar state before the comet arrives.

In all sincerity, I would recommend that piece of writing to almost any student. While it is emotionally difficult to parse and many students will use it as an excuse to wallow more, that is not entirely the fault of the writing, is it?

Students I have advised often want to spend a lot of time explaining to me that they have “discovered” that dissertations are sometimes nothing but a bunch of administrative hoops to jump through. This is true, but it’s less news to me than it is to the student working on their first dissertation. It is part of your academic training, but it is at least as much about professional training for the industry.

Academics sometimes experience a period of professional naiveté rivaled only by professional artists. You are in a business because in capitalism, everything is a business, including spirituality and religion, as we know. Universities are not pure and never have been, they have always been interested in their own replication, and they are increasingly interested in profits as well. They reasonably need to know that you can and will participate in the maintenance of their mission.

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