You have probably heard that insanity defined is the process of doing the same thing but expecting a different result. Dissertation insanity is very similar, but it focuses on how people with normally good time management and coping skills seem at a loss when it comes to the dissertation.

There are so many people who take on the dissertation process as if it’s a chance for them to overcome all their limitations (real or imagined) and they want to use this process to rid themselves of all their “bad habits”- just to prove, once and for all, that they have “what it takes” to become a Ph.D.