So You Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities?

Since the middle ages and the rise of the universities as distinct institution, the academic life has been a ripe target for satire. I can’t say this video is as artful as send up of scholastic logic and disputation in The Battle of the Seven Arts by Henri d’Andeli, but has some funny moments—though I take a bit of exception to the use of Nebraska as the academic equivalent of Siberia.

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