Guest Post: VAP Trap

Here's Cinderella, with a highly depressing tale from the trenches. -- PGOAT The VAP Trap has been thoroughly unpacked and elucidated h...

Guest Post: Tunes

Last season I was kind of partial to blaring Rage Against the Machine through the ipod headphones before interviews. Totally pumps you up. ...

Paint it..

I don't know about ya'll, but my job market label in gmail is black. -Second Suitor

Guest Post: Ten More Polite Instructions for Search Committees ('Tis the season)

A new guest post for you, my darlings, from the charmingly named Mister Philosophyhead. -- PGOAT 1. If you are your department's res...

I'm just sittin' on the shelf

Anon. 7:41, from over yonder on this here thread , asks: So what are folks doing now to gear up for the job market? And whose advisors are b...

Guest Post: Market Value

A second guest post has trickled in. This one's from Anon Philosopher. Enjoy. And keep 'em coming, kids. -- PGOAT So often, the d...

Mister, You're on Fire, Mister

I'm trying to ride out the 'Oh fuck!' feeling that invariably overtakes me sometime in the first few weeks of the school year. I...