July 10, 2008

A.B.D. for 30 Years and Counting

By SUSAN BASALLA MAY

Will not finishing your dissertation harm your career prospects in the nonacademic world?

Of all the questions that torment graduate students as they contemplate leaving academe, the most emotionally fraught is, "Should I finish my dissertation?" Many graduate students would like nothing more than to be free of it forever but are reluctant to abandon a project in which they have already invested so much of themselves. And looming overhead is the fear that leaving academe as an A.B.D.

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