#professorshipping

[esperfruit]

Sailor Moon manga redraw with Rotwood and Karla ^^

[prettyboykatsuki]

is job security real or is that like a folk tale

[fieldsofbone]

completed my first day of being the professor (instead of a TA) for my own class 🥳

[straightlightyagami]

sad about sofya kovalevskaya, if she had lived to like 75 (to the end of the revolution/civil war) instead of dying at 41 she could have been a professor of mathematics in her homeland

[vilecrocodile]

if i can relearn spanish by christmas maybe i can convince my tenured uncle to take me on a trip to cuba. he can bring his new turkish girlfriend if he wants idc. shes my age anyway so we will probably get along

[dionysus-complex]

man not to vent my academic ennui on main but as another academic year dawns I'm really questioning some basic things about why I should stay in the game

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

i wish i was less nitpicky about terminology in books but why is the book i am currently reading trying to convince me this character is an "adjunct professor" in cambridge in the early twentieth century

[the-saucy-wave-equation]

feedback from my academic supervisor has me doubting if I should try and continue working with him as a group leader

[fitscientist]

[di--es---can-ic-ul-ar--es]

A lot of rats had super intellectual parents. I did too: my dad preferred yes and crimson to acdc and creedence

[esperfruit]

Happy Valentine's Day American Dragon edition Rotwood x Karla aka Professorshipping

[jaggedwolf]

okay, this is prompted by the presidential obsessions poll post, but I'm going bonkers over a random contradiction

in Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs, he seems quite certain he could've become a math professor or at least an assistant to one if it wasn't for that whole military thing:

meanwhile the West Point Department of Mathematics page has this blurb

and on the third hand, everything else I search on the topic suggests that mathematics was one of the few non-equestrian topics that Grant did well in at West Point.

So like, what's the truth here? Is there a math professor at West Point with a grudge and/or a urge to dunk to make a funny joke on the hiring page, or did Grant exaggerate his own abilities and all other sources take it for granted he was being honest?? Are there still records of his grades somewhere???

[entanglingbriars]

it's insanely ridiculous that I can't even adjunct English with only a master's degree

[motownfiction]

ultimatum

As a family attorney, Will hears the word ultimatum probably once a day.

People are always giving each other ultimatums, and Will – ever the excellent lawyer – takes copious notes about them.

I told him if he didn’t break it off with his dental hygienist, I’d leave him.

She either got rid of the cat or else!

If he continued to stay at his karate lessons all night, and never came home, then I told him there wouldn’t be a home for him to go back to.

Will writes it all down. He remembers it all. He carries the words with him like songs he doesn’t like. In between Harry Nilsson singing “Without You” and that secret song from the High School Musical soundtrack that Emma used to think was brilliant, he hears spouses saying terrible things about each other. Sometimes he agrees with the client. Sometimes he just thinks about how the money will help his girls.

Everything is all about his girls, even after all this time.

Everything is about Elenore. Seeing her smile after so many years of crying. Talking to her about the latest bullshit Disney’s cooked up for Star Wars. Swapping memories about law school and taking it on the chin when she reminds him she’s better because she went to Columbia. Will doesn’t dare remind her that he’s the reason she was able to get there. His time. His love. That’s all free, and she never needs to feel obligated to him.

Everything is about Emma. Listening to her talk about her theories for her dissertation. Holding her when the prospect of the job market and moving away from New York makes her cry. Ordering her dinner and leaving little Love, Dad notes in the bags. Emma is one of the most fascinating women he’s ever known, and everyday, she finds more ways to impress the hell out of him. Will can hardly believe he’s allowed anywhere near her.

Everything is about Veronica. Saving up money to help her go to college. Listening to her gush about the different colleges she wants to go to. Dreaming with her about Harvard and Yale even though they know it’s all a long shot, a crap shoot. Veronica is beautiful and wonderful, and Will makes sure to tell her she’s a miracle of a granddaughter. If her father can’t remind her that she’s special, her grandfather sure as hell can.

And everything is about Lucy, the woman who requires no ultimatums, the woman Will is lucky enough to have known since she was a girl. Not the other half of him, but the whole that makes life worth living. She’s it.

“Do you think that’s why we’re still together?” Lucy asks one Saturday morning over croissants and orange juice. “Because of all the horror stories you hear at your job? You figure, like, ‘At least it’s not as bad as that?’”

Will shakes his head.

“More than that,” he says. “More than I can say.”

Lucy conceals her smile behind a long sip of orange juice, and Will thinks about all the words in his head.

(part of @nosebleedclub september challenge -- day xxiv!)

[sophiaphile]

We gotta stop thinking people are smart and respectable just because they have a job and exist in polite society.

and we def gotta stop thinking that people with "intellectual" jobs are necessarily smart or good people.

with that said... i can't wait until one of the monsters from grad school become a "respected" philosopher and i can join other people in spilling the tea on them

[ugisfeelings]

1) since when can faculty take credit for student militancy lmfao? we couldn’t even get u holier-than-thou bitches to join a dining hall rally on a good day!

2) the department u stayed at for two years happily expelled their only palestinian colleague so they could secure their prestigious promotions. and disavowed ethnic studies activism in the same breath! and you refused to listen to students warning abt it!