WHY WRITING A THESIS IS HARDER THAN HAVING A BABY

1.  Three months before your due date, your doctor doesn’t say: "I want you
    to go back and re-do the first trimester'’s work"

2.  Unlike supervisors, you can switch doctors without starting over

3.  Conceiving a baby is much more fun than conceiving a thesis topic

4.  You know exactly how long a pregnancy takes.  A thesis can take forever

5.  Friends and relatives don'’t question the worth of a baby

6.  You don'’t need to explain repeatedly to family and friend what it takes
    to make a baby and why you'’re not through it yet

7.  Babies don'’t require proper footnoting or adherence to a style manual.
    In fact, babies, do not come with any type of manual

8.  No one will complain that your baby is too similar to another one

9.  You can freely borrow other people'’s stuff if you’re having a baby; if
    you'’re writing a dissertation, tha'’s called plagiarism.

10. No matter how much trouble, some people will gladly have more than one
    baby.  More than one thesis? Never!