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Quotation of the Day for April 7, 2013"So you won't get a tenure-track job. Why should that stop you? You can cradle your new knowledge close, and just go do something else. Great--are you ready to withstand the open scorn of everyone you know? During graduate school, you will be broken down and reconfigured in the image of the academy. By the time you finish--if you even do--your academic self will be the culmination of your entire self, and thus you will believe, incomprehensibly, that not having a tenure-track job makes you worthless. You will believe this so strongly that when you do not land a job, it will destroy you, and nobody outside of academia will understand why. (Bright side: You will no longer have any friends outside academia.)" - Rebecca Schuman, from the article, 'Getting a literature Ph.D. will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor'. [http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/04/there_are_no_academic_jobs_and_getting_a_ph_d_will_make_you_into_a_horrible.single.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 5, 2013  |
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