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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
Lots of idiots walking around with PhDs.

It's true, and some of them are on this very subreddit! But yeah you're right the main thing a PhD comes down to is stubbornness. Especially the dissertation. Once you're PhD ABD it's just about grinding out a little bit every week and suddenly two years later you've written hundreds of pages and can't remember why you ever thought it was a good idea.
gpt
Yeah I know. I’m one of them. Never found a use for it but I do get to say ‘trust me I’m a doctor’ which is always fun but no way worth the pain and effort it took to get that useless piece of paper.