Just to follow up on my post yesterday about crazy advice from old people, let me tell you a story about the Old-World Septuagenarian . We ...
I Hope I Die Before I Get Old
Leiter's got a thread going right now about how job candidates should think about their AOC s. I guess the first obvious point about th...
If I Were Smart, I Wouldn't Have a Heart
Thinking again about my conversation with S this weekend, I was reminded of something I talked about with an acquaintance at last year'...
How Could I Still Be So in Love When I Know, We've Been Had?
I ran into S this weekend. He's an old friend from my program. He's been adjuncting in a department that has a graduate program, but...
Kissin' the Ring, Buffalo Wings, Honkin' Your Horn, Internet Porn
Just to follow up on Saturday's post about distributing mp3s to my class, there's some good suggestions in comments . If I could po...
Everywhere I Go, Kids Wanna Rock
I know two very simple things you can do to push your student evals through the roof, and make your students write those oh-so-rare teaching...
And Don't Get Caught on the Wrong Side of That Line
I came across this quote yesterday, and it's been stuck in my head since: There are more than 110 Ph.D.-granting programs in philosophy...
Communication Breakdown
That piece from the Village Voice I mentioned yesterday was about the changing academic job market, and graduate student unionization as ...
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
I just stumbled across this old piece from the Village Voice . Get a load of the lede: Here's an exciting career opportunity you won...
The Early Bird Catches the Fuckin' Worm
Check out this post from last year by Gualtiero Piccinini, a philosophy prof whose department had just done a job search when he wrote the ...
Working for the Man Every Night and Day
I was clearing up my desk a little today and ended up poking through the May issue of the JFP . And lookee what I found. Auburn's lookin...
Drive On, Until I Get There
Okay, it's starting to sink in how badly I need to get this dissertation under control. Unless I get it mostly done over the summer, the...
Letters I've Written, Never Meaning to Send
So I'm sitting here in a coffee shop trying to get some writing done. Or more accurately, I'm really just trying to plan some writ...
He Wanders Alone Knowing Something Ain't Right
A friend of mine is thinking about hitting the market this year. He's never been to the APA , and the other night I was trying to expla...
Rocking the Passive Voice VIII
How long’s it been since we did one of these, huh? Too long. So let’s see what we can do for fans of the passive voice. I am sorry t...
No Time for a Summer Friend
How does a grad student measure the passing of time? This week saw the year's first iced coffees. That means summer's here. It...
Here's the Resume, For the Day, You Know the Flav, Skin Out
It's late, I'm listening to some sweet early-90s rock and roll, and a thought I had way back in October has just come back to me. O...
I Wish You Were There to See It, When I Scored a Hat Trick on the Team that Called You a Fucking Queer
Let me come back to the question about discriminatory hiring practices for a moment. That thread Leiter has going is really about what th...
But this one goes to 11.
We've had some discussion in the past about the death sentence that is the massive teaching loads at some schools. I'll not beat th...
Don't Forget What Your Good Book Said
I got lost in my own snark yesterday before I could make the point I meant to make, and now it looks like the point will have to wait anoth...
If You Should Fall in Love With Me, How Bad Could it Be?
Leiter's got a thread going with some semi-interesting comments in it. A grad student from FL State found himself part of the way into...
I'm on a Ride and I Want to Get Off, But They Won't Slow Down the Roundabout
My grandmother is a very sweet old lady, but because she has Alzheimer's our conversations often have something of a cyclical form. She...
Are We There Yet?
An elderly relative recently asked me how much longer I’d be in school. I told her that I would finish when I got a job, and that I didn...
Let Me Introduce to You, The Act You've Known for All These Years
It's my great pleasure to tell you we'll be getting some fresh legs on the field here at PJMB . In fact, this very afternoon (if I...
A Hundred Billion Castaways, Looking for a Home
This is a telling read. A bunch of philosophy grad students were surveyed about a bunch of things, and here's a little of what t...
From Whence my Help Comes
So. You need to write a teaching philosophy and send it along in your teaching portfolio. But your placement chair won’t tell you what a...
Wait for Me
I've mentioned before how stunned I am at how long it takes to get a paper though a journal's review process, even just to get it r...
I Hope I Die Before I Get Old
Alright, after last night's celebratory binge of pizza and beer, we're back to our regularly scheduled programing. If you missed th...
Happy We'll Be, Beyond the Sea
Huge news. You remember that one-year the future Dr. Mrs. Dr. PGS interviewed for? Well, she got it. This is so great I can't even t...
I Think of All the Education that I Missed
When I reconnected with my office mates after labor day last year, we started talking about how we had no idea how to put together our teach...
Teacher, Teacher, Can You Teach Me?
Let me tell you about one part of the application package that philosophy people have to put together when they're going on the market. ...
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