I WILL NOT GIVE UP MY DOCTORATE!

[EstimatedProphet]

DON'T ASK ME TO!

[Gothic Sponge]

1. You must give it up for all that is good!

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Huh?

Anyway, how do you give up a doctorate? Someday I might want to dump mine.

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Hey, that's one of the reasons I won't give it up

don't know how anyway...

[TaleWgnDg]

6. yeah! once its conferred . . .

how DO you "give" it back? whether it be a "professional" doctorate or an "academic" doctorate -- huh? :shrug:

[Lavender Brown]

3. Not giving up your PhD will have devastating consequences!

Don't you see what this will do to America's relations with the rest of the world? :silly:

[GOPFighter]

4. Expect ....

...the Faculty Board for Truth to come forward any day now and accuse you of earning it under false pretenses. They'll say your degree was self inflicted. It was NOT earned while taking small arms fire from the shore. You're not fit to lead this country! Soon your picture will appear on the Drudge website. You're doomed!

[mom cat]

7. But you must! You made a mistake in your footnotes! And don't

get all huffy and try and deny it. I bet that you will even say that I never read your dissertation! So what if I didn't read it! That doesn't prove a thing. I bet there were others that were longer. YOU did not bleed enough over it. I never saw the blood!
Thanks for starting this thread. I feel better now. :yourock:

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

8. That's what attracted me to college in the first place

my degree CAN NEVER BE TAKEN AWAY FROM ME!! (Despite the occasional nightmares in which they show up and say an audit shows I was short two classes and I have to take them...)

I can't be laid off from it or fired from it, either.

Neener neener boo boo, ALL MINE.

[Donkeyboy75]

9. Actually, you can have it taken from you.

Jan-Hendrik Schon had his revoked after he was exposed for faking data in some scientific papers...and the fraud was in no way related to his Ph.D. thesis.