June 12th, 2008
Philosophers
I have two masters degrees: a Master of the Arts in English Studies and a Master of Philosophy (which is what they give someone who doesn’t bother to write a dissertation at the doctoral level) in English. The focus for the second degree was modern literature and literary criticism, which means, basically, that I read a lot of philosophy and a lot of lit critics who thought they were philosophers.
It took me two post-graduate degrees to figure out that the majority of these words that everyone studies so diligently are largely wastes of time… like this comic!
