Thinking Too Big
When I was on my batchelors degree course I had to come up with a final year project idea. All my ideas were considered too big for a batchelors and I had to trim one down a lot to be able to do it. When I was on my masters degree course I had to come up with a project from which I wrote my thesis. All my ideas were considered too big for a masters and I used an idea the Prof gave me. Now I’m on a PhD and it’s ALL research and my ideas are still considered too big for a PhD. Both the batchelors and masters people told me I’d have to do a PhD to do that kind of work, so what gives? I think the argument is that you have to do something extremely well, not necessarily the scale of it - and if I was doing my bit perfectly then I could probably expand the scope.
The more things change, the more they don’t. Bah humbug.
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