tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post769252445740197670..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Academic Monkey Gives Unsolicited AdviceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-69584328934008430882013-08-15T13:08:01.840-04:002013-08-15T13:08:01.840-04:00I went to an Ivy as an undergrad and then one of t...I went to an Ivy as an undergrad and then one of the University of California campuses for grad school. When I got my first TT position at a community college, the other proffies let it be known that my grad degree was worth less than theirs because theirs was from UCLA and mine wasn't. I considered this and came to three conclusions:<br /><br />1. They were right.<br />2. UCLA was a backup Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-37575530930953555842013-08-15T13:03:13.511-04:002013-08-15T13:03:13.511-04:00Agreed. And that's a terrific graphic!Agreed. And that's a terrific graphic!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-61180828658284684502013-08-15T12:37:08.178-04:002013-08-15T12:37:08.178-04:00I think it goes to show you that different groups ...I think it goes to show you that different groups of unis have different strengths and weaknesses. It takes so much to get into Ivies that we all assume it means automatic job prospects. But the funding situation amidst so many other, better-rounded students, plus the sense that a student from, say, Loyola or Buffalo might be more humble than the Ivy who is "forced" to "lower"Academic Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07086078244493768565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-6573367920202523562013-08-15T11:16:37.086-04:002013-08-15T11:16:37.086-04:00Well, wherever you came across it, I think Princet...Well, wherever you came across it, I think Princeton (and similar institutions) needs to hear it (lets just say that what you describe above sounds like a very familiar scenario -- from 20+ years ago, which suggests that not much has changed/is changing in the Ivy League). <br /><br />Or maybe you've just told them (can't believe somebody at Princeton doesn't have a google alert set Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-31070390302167055022013-08-14T23:52:31.458-04:002013-08-14T23:52:31.458-04:00OH MY GOD I hadn't even thought of that...
(a...OH MY GOD I hadn't even thought of that...<br /><br />(although the Princeton reference was to my circle of friends, many of whom are 3 years out with PhDs and still struggling to get interviews because no one takes them seriously at a CC job or second tier rural school and they don't have the extra talents needed to create jobs out of nothing)Academic Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07086078244493768565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-39269590585944086002013-08-14T23:24:21.113-04:002013-08-14T23:24:21.113-04:00Works for me, too. Maybe you could give unsolicite...Works for me, too. Maybe you could give unsolicited advice to those Princeton Ph.D.s whose applications you've been reading? Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-49240977547350032062013-08-14T23:09:30.769-04:002013-08-14T23:09:30.769-04:00Let me just say that an unsolicited advice column ...Let me just say that an unsolicited advice column is just the ticket. Go Monkey!Frog and Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377542172335502858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-83456053327862115742013-08-14T22:56:44.591-04:002013-08-14T22:56:44.591-04:00...breathe deeply...back away...RUN RUN RUN...breathe deeply...back away...RUN RUN RUNAcademic Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07086078244493768565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-33118620635889285162013-08-14T21:22:19.938-04:002013-08-14T21:22:19.938-04:00My former professor introduced me to his gradflake...My former professor introduced me to his gradflake so I could give said gradflake some advice on his dissertation. Said gradflake then offered to send me links to the 3 webcams he had going 24/7 in his apartment. Needless to say, when the gradflake later invited me to collaborate on a research project with him, I politely declined, prompting a string of abusive emails from him, and then, Dream-Killerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899352252923649504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36366266458616580792013-08-14T16:41:59.267-04:002013-08-14T16:41:59.267-04:00"There is something special about academia. I..."There is something special about academia. It draws in a certain sort of person, the successful and smart type, who then engage in the practice of constantly deconstructing everything around them until they have deconstructed themselves into nothing." - AM<br /><br />“When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be Ripbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01685894007541567391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-68597478537968887622013-08-14T16:37:35.429-04:002013-08-14T16:37:35.429-04:00My advice comes to two words: pepper spray. My advice comes to two words: pepper spray. Froderick Frankenstien from Fresnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11653942918068535424noreply@blogger.com