If you were lucky enough (cough, cough) to write a dissertation, you remember that during the first few months of the writing process you thought, “Man, I’m going to open everyone’s mind to [insert topic here],” but after way too many hours of research and writing you were more like, “I’m not sure if I even care about [insert topic here].”
In this article on McSweeney’s, Josh Freedman shares his own sad realization that those hours spent working on his dissertation might not be as impactful on society as he had hoped.
