dissertation, n.All

A Dissertation is an interminable collection of footnotes strung together by an impossibly tedious narrative.

A Dissertation is the obligatory price of admission to the grazing pastures of academe.

A Dissertation is really just refined common sense

A Dissertation is, like teeth, one of two kinds: incisors and grinders.

A Dissertation is generally nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

A Dissertation is like vomiting uncontrollably for three years and then having people pick through it and tell you it needs more detail.

A Dissertation is really just a matter of having a two sentence idea, figuring out how to expand it to a two hundred page idea, and then spending endless time trying to explain it in two sentences again