That's the statue of the ethicist who drunkenly fought a hundred men
For the last week, I've been training temporary employees. One of these is a part-time English teacher, who today told me that my skills at teaching adults were strong.
It was particularly flattering in the context; it was a response to what I had just told him, which was that I should like to go back to college and make a career out of academic study. I am increasingly interested in earning a Ph.D. in philosophy, specializing in normative ethics. I could then claw my way into tenure, publishing my observations and teaching them to the unwary.
I think I'd be awesome at it. They would worship me like a titan among philosophy departments. People would make statues and shit.
The University of Texas in Austin has a surprisingly strong philosophy department. But I still need to figure out how to convince them they must admit me, and I need to know how hard it is to leverage a diploma from U.T. into a job with tenure prospects. It is a rather daunting idea when I think about it; I've never even considered planning so much of my life at one time.
Collegians, consider this your cue to tell me what I need to know.
It was particularly flattering in the context; it was a response to what I had just told him, which was that I should like to go back to college and make a career out of academic study. I am increasingly interested in earning a Ph.D. in philosophy, specializing in normative ethics. I could then claw my way into tenure, publishing my observations and teaching them to the unwary.
I think I'd be awesome at it. They would worship me like a titan among philosophy departments. People would make statues and shit.
The University of Texas in Austin has a surprisingly strong philosophy department. But I still need to figure out how to convince them they must admit me, and I need to know how hard it is to leverage a diploma from U.T. into a job with tenure prospects. It is a rather daunting idea when I think about it; I've never even considered planning so much of my life at one time.
Collegians, consider this your cue to tell me what I need to know.