Spilled Milk and Dissertations
February 11th is National Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk Day. The dissertation process can seem like a series of setbacks. How you handle those setbacks is what matters…
Don’t cry over spilt milk.
— Aesop
Topics get rejected. Drafts get returned. You can lament every step of the process. Or, you can accept the criticism as the ultimate cheat sheet. Your committee is telling you exactly how to get your dissertation done!
Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
— W.C. Fields
Sour grapes in reverse, I guess! But, Fields is right as it pertains to your dissertation. Most setbacks you suffer in the dissertation process are because parts of your study are poison. They will eventually kill your project, and you’re lucky if your committee identifies them early in the process.
Have you ever noticed that things that don’t kill you make you weaker? And great minds don’t think alike. If they did, the patent office would only have about fifty inventions. I started getting suspicious when I cried over spilt milk and the cashier took it off my bill.
— Scott Adams
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