Nothing in it about penis-shaped helicopters, but this Anthony Grafton piece about going to graduate school is pretty good-- the kind of combination of encouragement about the inherent
Maybe it's more an illustration of the deeper truth of what it's like, rather than a literal picture. [Thanks Ethan!] [To the tune of 2Pac, Dr. Dre &
After taking note of Jill Davis' copy of What the Dormouse Said, I thought I should show what my copy looks like now: My standard practice now is
I confess to mixed feelings about linking to the article, and running the risk of spreading the meme. However, there's a serious argument in here that's worth noting.
"Librarians are more socially outgoing than academics?" (Household Opera, "The 'single woman in a rural college town' blues")
My review of Tom Misa's Leonardo to the Internet came out in the latest American Scholar. Since the Scholar doesn't have a Web site, I'm taking the liberty of publishing the review here. (The editors at AS, all of whom are leaving or are being forced out-- a fact that I still have a hard time getting my mind around-- made some improvements to it; this is really the draft.)
[To the tune of The Beatles, "Let It Be," from the album 1.]
I was thinking about how I came to get this new columnist gig, and how the mechanics of it differ from getting an academic position. This is worth
Preface (1999) No one has born the weight of the decade's terrible academic job market more than young Ph.D.s. Caught between a culture that insists they cannot leave
i I love my job, for a whoe bunch of different reasons: for example, it exists. (Piece of dark humor that summarizes a moment: What's the hot new
A former student about to start a Ph.D. at my alma mater asked me for advice on his first year. I came up with a top ten list. While some of my recommendations are very location-specific, there's an intention behind even the Philadelphia-specific stuff that can be generalized to other schools.
