Dedication

I can honestly say that I've never read anyone else's dissertation.  I mean, come on, it's one or four hundred pages of regurgitation of a narrow area of research in someone's particular field of interest leading up to a research project that they will describe in mind-numbing detail and then justify as if it alone holds the key to salvation.  Get real.  If it's any good, it'll be condensed into a fraction of the size, peer reviewed, and published in a journal.  If I need to know about it, I'll read the abstract on PubMed.  I have no illusions that anyone will ever read mine either, despite the fact that I've paid good money that could be used to buy a new pair of boots to have it printed on cotton paper and bound in leather.  Heck, I couldn't even bring myself to read over it again when the printer sent me an approval copy of the file.  I'm sick of it. 

But there's one page in a dissertation that is a worthwhile read.  It's the acknowledgments or dedication page.

However, because I know that the people I mention in mine will never actually look inside my dissertation, I thought maybe I should publish it a little differently.