Well, I have a brief lull before my seminar of the day, and I think I'll fill it by informing the world some decisions I've made, recently
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Ah, just a mite bit. I've always loved your rhetorical sense of humor. Very witty.
About grad students... I was watching the Simpsons last night where GAs were being whipped and driven like cattle while being informed that there would be no furious eating of bread thrown for the geese in the park until they had finished grading several hundred more term papers.
No one likes a jerk but sometimes a jerk is a jerk because that's all that they have going for them. Pity them?
Never. They get better benefits than me. ;) Which, in academia, doesn't mean much, admittedly.
The Sciences are less bad about Grad Student abuse than Liberal Arts are, in general. Even then, most Grad Students would rather have Research Assistantships instead of TAing.
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About grad students... I was watching the Simpsons last night where GAs were being whipped and driven like cattle while being informed that there would be no furious eating of bread thrown for the geese in the park until they had finished grading several hundred more term papers.
No one likes a jerk but sometimes a jerk is a jerk because that's all that they have going for them. Pity them?
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The Sciences are less bad about Grad Student abuse than Liberal Arts are, in general. Even then, most Grad Students would rather have Research Assistantships instead of TAing.
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