Fw: phd

["raymond mcallister" <dinodivr@bellsouth.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "raymond mcallister" <dinodivr@bellsouth.net>
To: <nygdan@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: phd


> Robert,
>     I hold a Ph.D. in Oceanography. If I'd had the financial resources to
go
> straight to the degree, I could have probably finished in about 3 1/2 to 4
> years. Check the minimum hours required at your U of choice (from the
> Internet). How many hours will they let you take each semester. That gives
> you a lower limit which has added to it the hours for thesis research. If
> you luck out with a good problem and a good and helpful professor, add a
> rock bottom minimum of a year to do a publishable dissertation. One year
> means a diploma mill, sort of like the one that is being hashed out on the
> dino group right now. Some students have to live on a grad student
stipend,
> probably about 9 to 15,000 per year but requiring half time work on a
profs
> research. And you might end up not liking the problem but stuck with it,
or
> changing projects which adds more time. It took me from 1951, in the fall,
> to 1958, July, to get mine, working as a grad assistant, weeding gardens,
> poaching abalone, etc to survive. But a good, traditional PH.D. opens most
> doors for you.
>     Good luck
> Dr. Ray McAllister
> dinodivr@bellsouth.net
> (954) 426-0808
>