> All we ask them to do is write 100 pages or so on a topic of their choosing. What utter nonsense. You have to do research, that is found good enough and sexy

> All we ask them to do is write 100 pages or so on a topic of their choosing. What utter nonsense. You have to do research, that is found good enough and sexy enough to be published to get published. In the meanwhile you have all kinds of other tasks you have to do like teaching or being your professors slave, depending on where you do your PhD. Writing a thesis is part of it, but is just a little part.