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What: "There's a linear path, but lots of optional sidequests. Next term, I'm planning to devote half or more of my time to side projects that will hopefully result in smaller publications, rather than jumping straight into the dissertation full time."---There more reasons in the jump.

Writer: Dan Hirschman

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Date: Dec 31 2010 5:36 AM

What: "Academia is like the military: often profoundly useful yet pervaded by values and behaviors that are outright silly generally a result of taking itself far too seriously. That's why both academia and the military are ripe for parody."---the link is a review of a parody of academia.....

Writer: Jonathan Lethem

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Date: Dec 31 2010 5:39 AM

What: "There is a vicious hierarchy. The hierarchy in academia is like that of an aristocracy or even a caste system. People who graduate from elite schools have the best chances of getting jobs, publications, and grants, while those of us who went to lesser schools have less of a chance of getting these things."---A real logical and prickly analysis of academic culture......

Writer: John Pepple

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Date: Dec 31 2010 5:48 AM

What: "Academia is like a business, where we do not optimize profit, but prestige." -the rest in the link...

Writer: Jose Quesada

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Date: Dec 31 2010 5:51 AM

What: "This points out how the academic and commercial value systems are different. Academia is like page-rank: your value is defined by what everybody else thinks of you."

Writer: William Cook

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Date: Dec 31 2010 5:53 AM

What: "poetry in academia is like a flush toilet in a dormitory. you expect it to be there, but you also expect it to be full of shit."--the rest in the Tweets.....

Writer: ponchopeligroso

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Date: Dec 31 2010 5:55 AM

What: "He says that being in academia is like "bathing in altruism." Under its influence, he wrote his first book, a biography of the comic Louie Anderson." the rest is in the link, which is a story about finding a career goal.....

Writer: Carl Kurlander

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Date: Dec 31 2010 5:57 AM

What: "In so many ways, leaving academia is like leaving a partner (some would argue an abusive one). Even when you don't want to go out with that person and you know all the reasons why they're bad for you,....."

Writer: Sabine Hikel

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Date: Dec 31 2010 6:00 AM

What: "Overall having a job in academia is like running your own business, it's fun, you can be your own boss, have your own employees, and sky is the limit. But those come at a price,...."

Writer: Sining Chen

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Date: Dec 31 2010 6:04 AM

What: See the article in the link for the whole story....

Writer: Steve Mirsky

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Date: Dec 31 2010 6:13 AM

What: "Dressing fashionably in academia is like clearing the four-foot high jump. The bar is not that high...Anything with some cut or color draws derision - and admiration - because the sartorial requirements of the business are so low."

Writer: M Massino

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Date: Dec 31 2010 6:16 AM

What: "Or, why breaking into legal academia is like purgatory for some people"...see the rest in the article, which is funny...

Writer: Unknown.....

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Date: Dec 31 2010 6:21 AM

What: "Imagine that academia is like a plant collector intent on cultivating plants from diverse kinds of climates in an excellent conservatory."...Kind of a neat story.....

Writer: Angela Ginorio

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Date: Dec 31 2010 6:24 AM

What: "The overwhelming (really underwhelming) majority of contemporary poetry is mincing, deliberately esoteric, and ultimately bloodless-versification by poetasters whose only life experience has transpired within well-tenured campus walls. The poetry of those ensconced in academia is like the offspring of royal families that have intermarried for centuries. "....the rest is in the link.....

Writer: Patrick Walsh

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Date: Dec 31 2010 6:27 AM

What: "There's a reason why a wise person once said that academia is like a group of warring principalities united by a common parking problem."

Writer: ingermewburn

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Date: Dec 31 2010 6:32 AM

What: Reductionism run amok. Reductionism run amok in an authoritarian hierarchy. That's the situation in a typical academic bureaucracy . The disciplines tend not to talk to each other. None of the disciplines want to talk to each other. They each build a strong box and segment from the rest and go deep. That what's going on. There is much to be gained from breaking down these segments in the ice cube tray. But the attitude is so entrenched it will be a generation before intellectual integration takes place on a larger scale. ---Yes indeed.

Writer: LucretiaGermanica

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Date: Mar 9 2011 4:35 AM

What: Who is a cognitive puritan? This is a person who allows only a certain type of conversation or thinking. Most prevalent amount computer and science types working with machines and things and not enough contact with human beings. This is attitude is very common in Universities. The key adjectives are literal and logical. These are the mental attributes that are necessary for computer programing and science.

Writer: ????

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Date: Mar 20 2011 2:55 AM

What: The linked article has a humorous tone , but deals with an issue that probably common in most graduate schools.

Writer: Thomas H. Benton

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Date: Jul 31 2011 11:48 AM

What: "What all of these posts (and the other posts in this series) have in common is the idea that to be effective (and prolific) writers, we must write every day. Writing effectively and prolifically is like training to be an athlete: we must put in the time and the sweat. It's only after this commitment that we can expect some kind of result."

Writer: Billie Hara

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Date: Jul 31 2011 11:54 AM

What: "They stay because the unfinished dissertation is like the wound of Philoctetes in Greek mythology, a festering sore that never goes away. No mere albatross, it stigmatizes its owner in ways that usually leave permanent scars. Philoctetes himself was ostracized, and he became a suffering hero of tragic theater."

Writer: Leonard Cassuto

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Date: Jul 31 2011 12:14 PM

What: "Yesterday, I was in a meeting with the two main back stabbers and I had this awakening. It was apparent they were absolutely entrenched and the machine was too big for me to fight. I have no doubt that someday they will fall, but at what cost? It is like being in the Nixon Whitehouse in 1970. You know it is going down, but not for a couple of years and after a lot of destruction." A comment about a corrupt academic organization.

Writer: lorii

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Date: Jul 31 2011 12:18 PM

What: "Finding new ideas is like prospecting for gold. If you look in the same old places, you'll find tapped out veins. But if you venture off the beaten path, you'll improve your chances of discovering new idea lodes."

Writer: Roger von Oech

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Date: Jul 31 2011 12:26 PM

What: "But higher-education administration is like business in that having people report to you raises your status. Plus, the fact is, government relations at universities is so complex and pervasive that no one person can do it alone." I knew there must be a link between the 2 somewhere.

Writer: Peter Onear

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Date: Jul 31 2011 12:30 PM

What: "Every year as the US government says it will increase the amount of guarenteed lending, colleges increase their tuition - magic! What will happen in education is like the real estate market. No college wants to be the first to say, "My tuition is too high based on the educational outcome, I'll lower it!" Thus colleges will cling to pre-bubble concepts that relate eliteness to high tuition." Yes, all that government money (loans) has gone into vastly inflating the cost of education. The educational institutions have become money whores of the first order.

Writer: gsawpenny

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Date: Jul 31 2011 12:57 PM

What: "Providence is like a massive version of South Boston. It's full of mumbling swamp yankees and the idle unemployed. Area hotels are infested with rats and Brown is well, Brown. I wouldn't send my dog to Brown, even though they've gotten rid of their flaky non-major philosophy. Providence is okay if you don't live anywhere near Providence. The state is dirt poor and fairly corrupt. If you have children they will grow up illiterate. Better than Baltimore, though, where your children will grow up dead."

Writer: spyzowin

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Date: Jul 31 2011 1:12 PM

What: "But teaching creationism alongside evolution is like trying to ride a Big Wheel in the Tour de France. "

Writer: Sarah Palin Thinks

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Date: Aug 7 2011 11:36 AM