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From the Post : [Danielle Allen] boasts two doctorates, one in classics from Cambridge University and the other in government from Harvard ...
Those who know me well know that I'm kind of a judgmental bastard. (Okay, those who don't know me all that well have probably figur...
If it weren't for tipsy, insomniatic nights I'd never finish the dissertation. [but I'm a little perturbed by the fact the curre...
I just want to give three cheers to the APA. The APA website looks way better than it used to (though you still get to lovely greyish site...
Anon 5:19 says , "I want to sleep with one of my committee members. I make excuses to ask them about my work, just so I can go to their...
After a year spent on one complete chapter and (approximately) 25 different iterations of the same 2-16 pages of an introductory chapter unt...
You know, no doubt other disciplines have their caste systems too, since that's just the way of the world. But I wonder if they celebra...
Anon. 8:33 points us to the best bedtime story I've seen in a good long time, "Two-Year in Hell," by Richard Dean. An excer...
Several readers have jumped on Leiter's "Rising Stars" post from this morning: The Chronicle of Higher Ed used to run a feat...
Let me preface this by saying that I recognize it's both too early to worry about interviews and this probably shows just how much more ...
Hopefully at least some of us are coming up on the dissertation defense. In comments, Philo said: I'm defending my dissertation pretty ...
I just wanted to bump Anon 11:54's question up top: Hi everybody. I have a question that's very difficult to ask as it must remain s...
I've had a fair amount of trouble describing what it's like to try to get ready for the job market while writing the dissertation. ...
Interpersonal skills are just as vital as technical know-how. After all, your coworkers (ranging from an Administrative Assistant to the CEO...