From Grad School to Happiness

Hello, readers! (If any of you are still out there. :) ) Unsurprisingly, with the passage of time and distance from my grad school life, I h...

Hey all! Long time no talk!! I'm writing today because everyone who hasn't already done so should head over to the Chronicle of Hi...

So ... while I've been away taking care of work things and life things and computer things, it appears that my blog has gotten tangentia...

Hello from your friendly and loving (but neglectful) blogger! You know my typical excuses by now ... work, outside (non-computer) life, wo...

I'm going to read the whole thing this weekend and will probably have more to say about it in future posts, but the newest NSF Survey of...

More updates on my postacademic life later this week ... for today, a rant. :) I ran across this link the other day - another post from t...

Colorado State University has now updated their job posting, so that now it only indicates that they are looking for an "entry-level...

The chair of the English department at Colorado State has responded to questions about their discriminatory highly controversial job ad, w...

So, Colorado State University has posted an ad for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English position, to start in the fall of 2012. ...

Hey, everyone! Sorry for my relative lack of posting this month ... it's been a crazy one! Today, I have two new postacademic blogs to...

I've got a few links to share with you today, all of which are loosely related to the basic theme of Your Brain on Academia. As you kno...

A few random thoughts for today...... First, let's take a look at the google searches that have been bringing folks to this place over...

I've recently written that these days, I only find myself angry or bitter about academia when I hear about other people who are struggli...

You know how people say that the various social science job markets aren't as bad as the humanities markets? And that the market might e...

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the date on which I left academia. Well ... more accurately, tomorrow is the one-year anniversa...

This article was sent out over my department's listserv this morning, from a "star" grad student in my former program. I'...

So I'm still on the listserv for my grad department, which means that I get almost-daily updates on what's going on in my department...

Quick blogging/life note: Yes, it's after January 1st ... and yes, I'm restarting my nonacademic job search. I'm currently writi...

I'm visiting my family this week for the holidays, spending time with them and my partner's family and my old friends in the state I...

Remember how I said a few weeks back that I would probably only post new ranty anti-academic posts when something specific happened that fru...