post submission PhD.  Thought I was successfully recovering and doing the OMG ITS UNDER EXAMINATION denial thing quite happily while working dead end job that requires little brain skill but lots of grunt.  Until Friday.  Get message on phone from supervisor, apparently one of the examiners wants a word count.   Ok, fine - I do it.  Now I am doing ( Read more... )

I moved to the other side of Canada for my Master's of Library Science degree. I have made new friends, but miss the security of my best buds. I live alone, when for the past 4 years I've lived in full houses with lovely roomies ( Read more... )

Compiled with help from the comments and a couple friends off-line... The group hug we all need as we brace for a new term.

( Our Favorite (Academic) Things )

Someone forwarded me alternate lyrics to "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music today, ones about growing old, and it got me thinking. As academics, what are our favorite things? (Or, as the case may be, least favorite things?) I can think of plenty of least favorites, but not a lot of favorites. As we (prepare to) start the new term, what do ( Read more... )

I have been a longtime lurker in this community, and I have watched time and time again posters get reamed for not being "cool" or "clever" enough, along with posters who clearly think they are the cleverest people in the world poke fun at their students for not living up to their higher than thou expectations. The saddest thing about all of this ( Read more... )

In departments, do professors sleep with each other/is there constant animosity over who gets tenure and who doesn't/or any other types of drama? Just curious if what I "heard" is actually true in terms of what kind of environment it is.
~Karrie

I was having this discussion elsewhere and thought perhaps members of this community would have some interesting selections...I'm going to assume that at least a few of you grew up as "bookworms" given your current membership in Academics Anon.

What is your favorite book when you were in grade school? I stumbled upon an old copy of A Wrinkle in ( Read more... )

I urgently - URGENTLY - need something that 1) needs to be done and 2) is so unpleasant that I'd rather work on my dissertation ( Read more... )

I'm in the middle of some frantic last-minute revision to combat my exam-related panic attack, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. So to lighten things up a bit, I thought we could share our most strange and interesting exam stories ( Read more... )

The spotlight has certainly brought an increase in posting volume! Hope this particular post doesn't feel too much like clutter.

I just wanted to remind everyone (new and old) about the introductions post here -- new members are welcome to post comments there, introducing themselves. Glancing over there now there seem to be about eight new ( Read more... )