I'm Going For Speed

More from Second Suitor. --PGS I’m sure all graduate students have come across it sometime. The study where some scientist got spiders hig...

PT. Schneider Electric Manufacturing Batam

WALK IN INTERVIEW PT. Schneider Electric Manufacturing Batam, a French Company is looking for candidates who meet the following position: Se...

You are not alone.

In comments, whipitgood brings us this encouraging report: Great news, everyone who's working as an adjunct instead of as a "real...

A Dollar When I'm Hard Up VIII

I put another round of applications in the mail today, and left the post office $15.54 poorer. I'm not going to bother figuring out my ...

Please, Please, Please

Another dispatch from Second Suitor. --PGS I’m running into a problem. Ok, it’s a dissertation problem. You know, the kind that you have t...

Bouncing Off the Walls, Unraveling the Thread

Last week I mentioned how tired I am. It's a physical tired, but not just that. It's a tired that's in my head, too. In comme...

So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star

Shit. I t hought I remembered Sisyphus on this beat before. Here it is, and this shit is the truth . I'll stop and make a snarky sid...

Thanks for the Information, I Know I Should Look Before I Leap

I need to be thinking about more applications right now, but every time I try, it just makes me want to go to bed and pull the covers over m...

The Blueprint Vol. 2

A follow-up on an earlier post from my boy, Second Suitor. --PGS While I’m sure publishing now won’t hurt my job prospects, a lot of scho...

Sunday Comics

Apropos of people's advice for prospectives, here's "Get Paid", from Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator. (Click to make it big....

Another Day to Wake Up on the Feed Kill Chain

Okay, one more really basic piece of advice for prospective grad students. Maybe even more than with my first two pieces of advice , take t...

But I'm on my Third City, And I'm on my Fourth Car, And I'm on my Fifth Apartment

I'm coming late to the party , but I want to lay out my basic advice for prospective grad students. Keep a couple of things in mind, t...

The illusion of control.

I've long been aware of my habit of using domestic mundanities for procrastinatory purposes. (My bathroom is never so clean as when I...

Here We Go, We're Off Again

Okay, well, the the new JFP 's out today. My physiological reaction to the first JFP of the season was unfocussed vision and shortnes...

I Got a New Complaint

As a quick post-script on my last post , here's another general principle of prospective-grad-student-advice-giving. Don't tell pro...

Forever in Debt to Your Priceless Advice

In comments , Potential Philosopher reminds me it's getting to be about time to talk about advice for prospective grad students. (Actua...

Watching a Horse Running Down its Last Legs

I hinted at something yesterday I've been meaning to post about. I'm exhausted. My body just decided to take itself off-line for a ...

I've Been Working from Seven to Eleven Every Night, It Kind of Makes Life a Drag

Motivation's hard to come by right now. I've been scraping enough of it together, day to day, to get some work done. But it's ...

Sunday Comics

"Dreamin' Man." By Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator. (Click to make it big.)

The Bronze Medal

More questions about next year from Second Suitor. --PGS Okay. So I have a question and recognize that it probably doesn’t have a clear an...

The Blueprint

Second Suitor, a good friend of mine from my program, is going on the market next year. He's having a lot of the same experiences I did...

Voices, Another Sound, Can You Hear Me Now? This is Planet Earth

I found two interesting things in my mailbox at school yesterday, along with all the usual academic junk mail. One was a burnt copy of the ...

Arg!

Ugh. Sorry about the unannounced hiatus there. A nasty confluence of laptop-, blogger- and dissertation-related problems has kept me off-l...

Your Love's Got Me Lookin' So Crazy Right Now

Remember Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre ? You know, Rochester's crazy wife, who he secretly keeps locked up in his attic? Well, I am Berth...

Sunday Comics

"A Valentine's Story." By Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator, with a credit to his GF, the Ambivalent Psychbot, for the idea. (Cl...

Five Passengers Set Sail that Day, For a Three Hour Tour, A Three Hour Tour

I know it's not exactly the season for this sort of issue anymore, but this piece by a law prof in Inside Higher Ed 's got me thin...

Hold the Line, Love Isn't Always on Time, Oh Oh Oh

In response to my last post , Anon. 4:59 says , This is just false about VAP positions and lectureships; there is no other way to spin it. ....

I Don't Like the Odds You're Giving

I'm trying to get my head around the idea that in all likelihood I'll be on a one-year next year. For various reasons, it's not...

I Don't Want to Talk About it Now

I'm tired of getting asked about the job market. I'm tired of people who know I'm on the market asking me how it's going. ...

'Cause What You Say is What You Say

Just a quick housekeeping note. As you can see down on the left, we've added a recent comments feed, which will hopefully make it easie...

Travel fund for female grad students.

There's been a lot of discussion here lately about the dearth of women in philosophy and what the hell we can do about it. (Which disc...

Come on Pretty Baby Call My Bluff, 'Cause for You My Best Was Never Good Enough

So here's an admission that hardly puts me in the minority of grad students. I have some perfectionist tendencies. I'm almost neve...

Sunday Comics

Soon-to-be-Jaded Dissertator tells us we need to "watch out for search committee pirates." Sounds smart to me. I sure as hell fe...

I Hope that Someone Gets My Message in a Bottle

Leiter's posted an e-mail from someone whose department's hiring, and who got recommendation letters from students in some applica...

Interview Advice from Akhtaboot

Thanks to Akhtaboot, finding a perfect career opportunity has never been easier. Just go to www.akhtaboot.com, sign up, fill in some basic i...