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Dissertation Year: March 2012
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History grad student, junior faculty freak out, academic publishing disaster- it's all here: seven years of angst in academia. Monday, March 19, 2012. Amazing fact about the Weimar Republic. Two Jewish women (that I know of) were elected to the German parliament under the Weimar Republic: Toni Sender. Labels: amazing Weimar Republic facts. Thursday, March 15, 2012. The gay Nazi, people. It doesn't get much more sensational in an academic book. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog approved by:. Personal ...
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Dissertation Year: April 2013
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History grad student, junior faculty freak out, academic publishing disaster- it's all here: seven years of angst in academia. Monday, April 15, 2013. I want also to say this:. Have you noticed how like two different peer reviewers will have totally different reactions to things? Ok, Ok, often they both don't like the same thing. But dudes. Often Reviewer A hates something and Reviewer B doesn't care about it, but hates something else. That happens a lot too. Labels: its all part of the business cesaer.
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Dissertation Year: Running with cows
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History grad student, junior faculty freak out, academic publishing disaster- it's all here: seven years of angst in academia. Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Some stereotypes about cows are wrong. (Based on my experience running with cows.*). Cows- the cows I run with* , that is- do not really like humans. They really, really do not want to be petted. Some are aggressive. By "some" I mean, about half of them. And not only the "male cows"- are they actually bulls? Like swimming with dolphins! Problems and ...
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Dissertation Year: November 2011
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History grad student, junior faculty freak out, academic publishing disaster- it's all here: seven years of angst in academia. Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Failure to befriend sheep. Sadness of thwarted desires to pet fluffy animals/things. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog approved by:. And this blog's motto is still: "The tragic rise of the Nazis put an end to this mass mentoring by German women, but my own commitment to mentor women and girls lives on.". View my complete profile. Making of the West.
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Dissertation Year: Student feedback
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History grad student, junior faculty freak out, academic publishing disaster- it's all here: seven years of angst in academia. Tuesday, December 18, 2007. From the end-of-semester class comments form filled out by students in Basic Composition, an intro to college writing course:. I did not find the pier reviews of my essay drafts all that helpful.". Labels: the little dears. What are they even good for? 10:30 PM, December 18, 2007. 4:15 AM, December 19, 2007. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Personal...
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Dissertation Year: October 2011
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History grad student, junior faculty freak out, academic publishing disaster- it's all here: seven years of angst in academia. Thursday, October 13, 2011. At long last: victory over funding agency. CC found a run-on sentence in the instructions of a funder to whom you have probably applied for money. More than once, and if you are like me, have been rejected multiple times, despite spending hours of your and your loved one's time ensuring that your proposal contains no run-on sentences. More leftie rioti...
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Dissertation Year: July 2011
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History grad student, junior faculty freak out, academic publishing disaster- it's all here: seven years of angst in academia. Thursday, July 21, 2011. In the mid nineteenth century, so I read yesterday, European psychiatrists rushed to cure the dread condition "cretinism" and its attendant intellectual disability, stunted growth, and remarkable facial abnormalities. But what caused it? Likely former home of many Swiss cretins.). But why is this happening in the Swiss Alps, not in urban slums? But then t...
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Dissertation Year: February 2012
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History grad student, junior faculty freak out, academic publishing disaster- it's all here: seven years of angst in academia. Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Evolution of a cover letter. Cover letter to editor to be mailed along with book proposal.). Four months ago: "This book makes three important scholarly interventions.". Today: "This book has a chapter on the gay Nazi (enclosed).". Labels: junior faculty freak out. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog approved by:. View my complete profile. Frantic att...
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Dissertation Year: Peer reviewers defeat themselves, again!
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History grad student, junior faculty freak out, academic publishing disaster- it's all here: seven years of angst in academia. Thursday, May 9, 2013. Peer reviewers defeat themselves, again! Peer reviewers once again. Self-defeated their own objectives. Cause they were like, "this article is too speculative. You have all this speculative language, like "possibly happened" and "seems like." And you draw all these speculative conclusions. We do not like it! Too much speculation.". 4:41 PM, May 21, 2013.
