[lbo-talk] re: post-doctorate

[B.]

I'm younger than the poor bastard working on his Ph.D.
in Neuroscience at UCLA, but it still strikes me as
odd that he's seen as a kind of failure because he's
32 and, I assume, does have a graduate degree, and is
at UCLA working on a Ph.D. -- but hasn't gotten it
*yet*. Coming from a family that has no college
degrees, let alone a family that has anyone with a
graduate degree or attendance at a place like UCLA --
well, it strikes me as absurd that now there's a
hypothesis afoot that he must have some mental
disorder to account for his, uh, slowness. Man!

Staying away from Marta's daughter,

-B.

Jim Devine wrote:

"Also, is it possible that he has Asperger's syndrome
(mild autism)which is characterized by poor social
skills, by poor ability to plan one's life, and by
poor common sense, but by professorial pretensions?"

Marta 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."