I've Been Doin' it Wrong

Apparently, I should have been 'augmenting' my income. At less than top universitiies, there is little incentive for professors to take on the burden of supervising a doctoral student. Some have found an alternative incentive.

German prosecutors are investigating about 100 professors across the country on suspicion they took bribes to help students get their doctoral degrees, authorities said Saturday.

The most I ever got was my family taken out to dinner (and that was post-defense).