Well, i I'm still alive. To borrow a quote from everyone's favorite movie, Tommy Boy;
'Lot's of people go to school for seven years.'
'Yeah, they're called doctors...'
Well, so i may be slower than most, but i can see the light at the end of the tunnel! if all goes well, i should be finishing up within the year!! Woohoo! In the meantime, check in often, because i'll be milking this experience for all it's worth! Enjoy living vicariously ;-)
And so the joy of being alive was gathered in that aromatic and burning first taste, in that blend of milk, coffee and wheat which brings communion with peaceful pastures, with exotic plantation and with harvests, communion with all the earth. Among so many stars there was only one accessible to us, only one that could compose that fragrant breakfast bowl. But unbridgeable distances now separated our vessel and that inhabited earth. All the riches of the world were held in a speck of dust wandering amid the constellations. And the astrologer Neri sought it, praying still to the stars.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The incredible shrinking tenure track
2009-11-02 15:42:58
According to science:
"Tenure-track openings routinely attract scores or even hundreds of applications, several speakers noted. Amidst mountains of resumes, hiring committees of competing research universities vie for the same small group of elite candidates. These few stars each garner multiple interviews and job offers while many of their fellow applicants count themselves lucky to receive a form rejection letter. Sometimes, in fact, departments that fail to land their top choice leave tenure-track positions unfilled rather than hire from a slightly lower echelon." here
So what do you if you're just one of those scores?
-jeremy
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