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No sane non-narcissistic person will ever fathom doing 2 PhDs. You do a PhD to learn how to think and research things. The only reason you would imagine doing a
by ramraj07 7y ago
No sane non-narcissistic person will ever fathom doing 2 PhDs. You do a PhD to learn how to think and research things. The only reason you would imagine doing a second one (assuming you're not someone who completely misunderstood what a PhD means), is so you can boast about it.
- laingc 7y agoWhat utter rubbish. I know several people with two PhDs - for example one guy who went from theoretical physics to economics - and they are all humble and brilliant. If I didn't have a family to support and a mortgage to pay, I'd consider doing a second PhD, given how much I enjoyed my first.
- non-entity 7y agoI dont have a family or mortgage and cant fathom affording top PhDs.
- VHRanger 7y agoI imagine you're talking about a specific econometrics professor at McGill? I'd say he's extremely unique, it's far from the typical.
- laingc 7y agoNo, a former Ukrainian colleague of mine from Germany. I also just had a double PhD apply for a job with me - one PhD in stochastic differential equations, one in machine learning. It’s rare, for sure, but not unique.
- jerrya 7y agoIn High School, I went to a summer chemistry program. One professor had 23 degrees, for real, ranging from chemistry to religion. I don't know if he had more than one Ph.D. But when I got to college, one of my professors had been this first guy's student, and one of my other professors had been the second professor's student. fwiw...
- saagarjha 7y agoOne of my professors had two PhDs: one in physics, and one in computer science. Considering that they worked on quantum computing, I’m not sure I could call it a bad choice.