Steve Tippins argues that students waste energy trying to write award-winning dissertations when almost no one reads them beyond your committee. Stop chasing perfection. Just finish it.
What do students worry about? That doesn't matter at all. The biggest thing that bothers me is. Oh, I want to have the honor dissertation. The best dissertation of the year. And that might feel good for about eight minutes, but after that, nobody's going to care. Nobody's ever going to read your dissertation anyways. Let's just get done.
