Alain de Botton

We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has meant people who have written dissertations on obscure subjects or who spend most of their day in libraries. But every human is, in an important sense, a carrier of an implicit philosophy - evident in their choices, pronouncements and commitments.

English Writer

Elise Andrew

To be honest, what I struggled with in my degree is what's so helpful when it comes to social media in that I lack focus. I'll start reading about evolutionary biology and end up on quantum physics. While that makes writing your dissertation very difficult, for a page like IFLS, that's amazing because I get a wide range of everything.

British Writer

Adam Grant

For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

American Author

Annalee Newitz

Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.

American Journalist

Eric Greitens

I'd finished a dissertation, writing about how international humanitarian organizations worked with kids in war zones and then I made this transition from the academic world to officer candidate school and to the SEAL teams. It was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life.

American Politician

Cara Delevingne

I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

English Model

Douglass North

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

American Economist

Esther McVey

My dissertation focused on the character traits and personality types of successful women.

British Politician

Bill O'Reilly

Jessie Ware

British Musician

A dissertation is usually written for a higher education degree, such as a master's or PhD.

University Level

Writing a dissertation involves detailed and thorough research on the chosen topic.

Extensive Research

Dissertations are focused on a specific area of study and contribute new knowledge or insights.

Subject Focused

 when you feel like an impostor you have to find ways to deal with the anxiety of kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop so some of the coping mechanisms are things like flying under the radar you know not raising your hand not asking for promotions not giving your ideas and sharing in meetings procrastination you know when I was supposed to be writing my dissertation I

Thinking your way out of...

 By morning, the gang leader arrived, checked out Sudhir, decided he was no threat, and they let him go home. So Sudhir went home, took a shower, took a nap. And you and I, probably, faced with the situation, would think, "I guess I'm going to write my dissertation on The Grateful Dead, I've been following them for the last three months."

The freakonomics of...

 I began to get to know him and his friends and family, and I asked him what he thought about me writing about his life for my senior thesis in college. This senior thesis became a dissertation at Princeton and now a book. By the end of my sophomore year, I moved into the neighborhood and I spent the next six years

Alice Goffman: How we're...

 and that we could choose differently. What's the future of the body, of beauty? If we change the body, will we have new kinds of awareness? And will new kinds of awareness of the microbial world change the way that we eat? The last chapter of my dissertation was all about cheese that I made

What happens when...

 If you listen to the way black youth today speak, think about the use of the word "yo." Whole dissertations could be written about it, and probably are being written about it. A pragmatic particle, that's what LOL has gradually become. It's a way of using the language between actual people.

John McWhorter: Txtng is...

 And I'd love to talk about this, but I think the argument is so obvious to anyone who's hung around a fourth grade classroom that it doesn't need much talking about -- but I guess I may be very wrong about that, and everything else that I've said. So don't go back and read my dissertation.

The call to learn PIPE...

 as stiff lever systems that produce speed or power. And my first forays into biological research, doing dinosaur paleontology as an undergraduate, were really squarely in that realm. But when I went to graduate school to study biomechanics, I really wanted to find a dissertation project

What we didn't know...

 and I liked it. And I liked drinking too, but it was obvious that alcohol was really the more dangerous of the two, but my friends and I could get busted for smoking a joint. Now, that hypocrisy kept bugging me, so I wrote my Ph.D dissertation on international drug control.

Ethan Nadelmann: Why we...

 history so i think for us is we just need to do you know what we can do and what we're supposed to do so it means we protect the fossils share the knowledge and invite everybody yeah mongolia is one of the best that's where i did my dissertation field work

Reimagining Dinosaurs...

 every time it was shared with outside parties. Less than a decade after his dissertation, newspapers were falsely insisting that experiments could prove sweetness was imperceptible on the back of the tongue.