[lbo-talk] Re: post-doctorate

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 11:23:20 PST 2006


I got my Ph.D. relatively quickly (5 years or so) but was delayed because I was involved in politics.

On 1/24/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Marta Russell wrote:
> >
> > He is not scum....he is just a procrastinator and unorganized man who
> > may not have the get up and go to make things happen in his life.
>
> That describes me to a T. It took me at least three years longer than it
> should have to get the Ph.D. And I was eligible for a direct commission
> in 1953, but by the time I got around to filing for it (i.e., merely
> filling out the papers), the requirements had changed! "Procrastination"
> can mean many things, but in some forms it is a really core symptom of
> clinical depression.
>
> Carrol
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-- Jim Devine

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