As someone with a PhD in history, getting a PhD in ANY discipline is insanely hard. About half of all people pursuing a PhD drop out. The academic demand, and the demands on your time, finances, and overall mental-well being are crazy. You don't just get to waltz into a PhD program and graduate. You work closely with your advisor and your committee to produce a scholarly work that brings something new and thought-provoking to the field of study. To complete a PhD program, you need to take the number of hours of coursework, pass a foreign language requirement, pass your comps (all-day multi-day exams making sure you know everything about everything in your field), and THEN you get to research and write about what new thing you are researching. Then comes the dissertation defense where your committee grills you on your work, and pokes as many holes as they can in your scholarship. If you had an ego before, it quickly gets eviscerated by your committee. And there is no guarantee you pass. And if you fail multiple times, or take too long, you get kicked out. And while doing all of this, you are expected to publish, be a TA or RA, and have a mountain of assignments you need to complete simultaneously ensuring your own work gets done in time. So no, getting any kind of PhD is not easy. This guy is a major jerk.

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Such rot, sir. Why, you're the very model of sanity. Oh, by the way, I pressed your tights and put away your exploding gas balls. ~ Alfred

WSJ attacks Dr. Jill Biden for using the Dr. title, rambles sexist nonsense

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