"If you're going to walk a long, lonesome highway, be sure you've chosen it for yourself."

Indeed. Doing the work for a M.A. or a Ph.D. that you don't actually "need" is not only a long lonely road but it is also a time-sucking, often frustrating, and hugely expensive undertaking as well. Myself, I dropped out of grad school after one semester. I've regretted this sometimes, but mostly not. Do I Have to Finish My Dissertation? 

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The death of 'Caveman'Zimmerman ends an era in Idaho -The Idaho Statesman
Lived in a cave from 1947 until death at age 94.

Daniel McCarthy's ruminations on anarcho-capitalism -Tory Anarchist

Anarcho-capitalism is an untenable form of polity, IMHO. Capitalism can't exist with out a state entity.

"Have you read 'Sein und Zeit'? - Quick Study (Scott McLemee)

Graduate students twisting themselves into knots. Darkly funny. Why I quit graduate school myself.