# Is there a doctor in the house? Yes! Me! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house-yes-me/278948 "2004-12-09T17:00:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house-yes-me/278948/21 "2004-12-10T16:26:56Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Why do I get this vision of a **deconstructionist** as someone who blows up buildings? “If \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, the deconstructionists have already won!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house-yes-me/278948/22 "2004-12-10T16:44:42Z")
Dr. Skopo, From someone who is just starting grad school… Congratulations. I can’t even imagine what it takes to get a PHD. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house-yes-me/278948/23 "2004-12-10T17:27:12Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Now, riddle me this. What exactly can you do with this prestigious degree? Be entitled to help other people earn the prestigious degree. That’s the academic circle of life. Congrat’s **Skodo**. Everyone I know with a Ph.D. is bright and very dedicated, and went through a lot of travails to get it. ---
**Author:** ![Emony\_Dax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Emony\_Dax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emony_Dax)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house-yes-me/278948/24 "2004-12-10T17:45:51Z")
> [@](#): > > The title of my dissertation is ‘England’s Giorgione’: Charles H. Shannon and Venetianism in Late Victorian Art. My grad advisor used to complain that every thesis or dissertation title now includes a colon. And how “back in the day”, titles weren’t nearly so complicated, blah blah blah… Yeah, he was a grumpy old fart 😃 Anyway, sincere congrats on your accomplishment! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house-yes-me/278948/25 "2004-12-10T18:24:59Z")
Congratulations! I just submitted my first paper (that will become part of my thesis) to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society today. They called me **Dr. Angua**. 😃 I’ve got another year before I can be legitimately called that. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house-yes-me/278948/26 "2004-12-10T18:33:51Z")
Congrats! Incase anyone is wondering what all this deconstructionist stuff is about… > [@Wikipedia](#): > > In Continental philosophy and literary criticism, [deconstruction](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction) is a school of criticism created by the French post-structuralist philosopher Jacques Derrida. Derrida offered what he called deconstructive readings of Western philosophers. Roughly speaking, a deconstructive reading is an analysis of a text that uncovers the difference between the text’s structure and its Western metaphysical essence. Deconstructive readings show how texts cannot simply be read as works by individual authors communicating distinct messages, but instead must be read as sites of conflict within a given culture or worldview. A deconstructed text will reveal a multitude of viewpoints simultaneously existing, often in direct conflict with one another. Comparison of a deconstructive reading of a text with a more traditional one will also show how many of these viewpoints are suppressed and ignored. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house-yes-me/278948.md?page=1)