Cite Canadian!!
February 25, 2009
An off-hand comment placed elsewhere (hmm, major drawback with the iPhone wordpress app is the usual Achilles heel of no cut, copy or paste features; update, here it is) has me thinking about citation practices. Everybody slants the old cites, right? Tell me you at least prioritize your own? But also those of your homies…wait. Which “homies”? Friends, department-mates, Univ. Colleagues? How about good old jingoistic nationalism?
Cite Canadian!!!!
Just a job?
February 25, 2009
A question arose in another venue.
Is graduate school attractive simply as a job? Without any particular motivation based on training or credentialling for a future job that uses the PhD?
Minimum wage is what, $21K or less depending on the state. I’ve seen grad stipends in the $25-28K zone. Job conditions are damn attractive compared to some minimum wage jobs, opportunities for slacking and even moonlighting abound.
Hmm.
