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Most phd students are not the bar hopping pick up artists. And female students in campuses don’t exactly hunt phd students to sleep with either. Marriage works.
by richrichie 3y ago
Most phd students are not the bar hopping pick up artists. And female students in campuses don’t exactly hunt phd students to sleep with either.
Marriage works. I am not talking about over 10 or 20 years. But during this period, it solves the problem of sex.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoSignificant swaths of Ph.D students would abandon all of their scholarly endeavors if they could go bar hopping and be pick-up artists. "Female students not hunting for Ph.D students" is evidence that, especially for men, getting lots of education is straight up "unattractive". Why should I even want a Ph.d if all it signals to the other sex is that I'm not just a nerd, but a nerd with a poor ability to calculate ROI. At least a lot of the "jocks" ended up with a good ROI job in finance that they got from their frat brothers rich dad.
- fwip 3y ago> Why should I even want a Ph.d if... I dunno dude, why do you do literally anything in life? Surely your life doesn't revolve around finding a wife.
- linguae 3y agoEarning a PhD is about showing employers that you are capable of producing novel research results. You should earn a PhD because you are interested in deeply investigating a research problem, and also because you are interested in pursuing a career in research despite the uncertainties that entails, particularly the competition for academic positions and the trend in industry away from unfettered research and toward business-driven research. If you cannot live with the uncertainty that a research career entails, and if you feel that earning a PhD is a relationship/sexual repellant, then you should consider another career path. Besides, a PhD didn’t stop Oppenheimer and Feynman.