<div dir="auto">In my limited experience... student chosen topics like my masters thesis bite off more than can be comfortably chewed. BYU is still working on my masters thesis 42 years and dozens of students later and so far as I know it has never been completed though it could be close now.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Kelly</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 10, 2024, 2:36 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 4:33 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Another idea poped up! What if I self finance my Ph.D.? Pay for it all<br>
by myself? Surely then the school would be more flexible with their<br>
teaching requirements or other requirements for that matter?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is basically what I am trying. I can only advise to talk to your university faculty about this. Some requirements are flexible, others not so much. </div></div></div>
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