Can someone please help me?

molliebatmit
Sun, 03 Nov 2013 09:24:37 +0000

Getting a PhD now is just a trophy for me. I don’t really see that as a wrong reason to get one…a lot of people have degrees they got for trophies… I just want to look at it on my wall in a pretty frame.

This is not going be enough motivation to actually get you through a PhD program, even if you are able to be admitted to one. A PhD – in anything – is a long, difficult process, and there’s no way to get through it if your only motivation is that at the end they’ll give you a nice diploma.

I would also disagree with the idea that “lots of people” have trophy doctoral degrees. It’s possible to half-ass your way through a class-based master’s, probably, but not something as long and as intense as a PhD program. Do you have any idea what the process is for getting a geology PhD, and what’s involved? Do you have a current geology research position, and do you enjoy it?