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Hmm. You kinda get the crown handed to you for doing it. But I get what you’re saying.

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Isn’t a tenured position the real crown in academia? I feel like successfully defending your dissertation is more like becoming a little prince or something.

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Fair enough. Yes, I’d say this is the whole picture.

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55% is a passing grade. I don’t need no Cum Laude.

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Undergraduate me: GIVE ME THE CUM LAUDE

Post-grad me: Please sir, I just want the fancy piece of paper.

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Good advice, but is this a meme?

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It is, if you’ve driven yourself mad during the process

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I treated every undergrad paper like a dissertation. Didn’t work out all that well. My grades were excellent, though.

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