Dissertation Writing for Dummies

Either you or someone you know is headed to graduate school this fall, maybe for a law degree, a master’s of some sort, or perhaps to become the world’s leading scholar of being fabulous, which is what I’m doing. People go to graduate school for different reasons. For those of you jumping off to business or law school, you know it’s nearly impossible to make those six figures, plus signing bonus, and to get that ride home from late nights at the office in a black car without a couple fancy extra letters behind your name. And if you’re joining the professoriate, you’re obsessed with some aspect of culture and you want to live a life of the mind—which, I have to say, is kind of awesome. Maybe your career goal is to be a tenured professor at a Top 50 university. Good luck with that! My goal is to write a book that will get me on Chelsea Lately, and maybe if I could be the Grace Jones Professor of Popular Culture at some university, that could be cute, too.