What is it? Where is it?

[TomK]

Thanks, BlackAkita. I suspect the whining about PhDs is from people who don't actually understand what one is or what it involves. How one can even think that most people who attempt to gain a PhD have to give up their humanity is such deplorable nonsense that you have to wonder what happened to that person to hold such an opinion. As for giving up wonderment, that's such an outrageous claim, because people start PhDs because they wonder about the field of research they're entering, want to learn more, and contribute new knowledge to the subject. That's the whole point of a PhD. No one starts a PhD in a subject they don't like or are not interested in. What would be the point of that?