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If you don’t care about careers, riches, and fame, and want to engage in a decade or more of quiet contemplation, then join a Ph.D. program. You will be very po
by ModernMech 5y ago
If you don’t care about careers, riches, and fame, and want to engage in a decade or more of quiet contemplation, then join a Ph.D. program. You will be very poor and exist apart from society, where you are neither student nor employee. You can study as much as you want!
- dr_dshiv 5y agoBoth the PhD experience and the monastic experience have a common root in the 6th century BC Pythagorean communities in southern Italy.