The School/Uni Thread

[zabu of nΩd]

Gives you a picture of how many jobs exist in Classics eh

 

[The Ozzman]

I had a 3.28 overall and I had a 3.4 in my major.

College FUCK YEAH

 

[Zephyrus]

Gives you a picture of how many jobs exist in Classics eh

I HAVE a job in Classics at the moment...

I have some clear signals telling me that Iowa is where I'll be next year, and they have a great reputation for placing people in jobs. That and I'm painfully aware of the slow death of Classics departments currently going on, which is one reason why I'm jumping ship to Ancient History once I get to the PhD level.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Good call on Ancient History imo

 

[Vimana]

Zeph, are you still planning on being a professor?

 

[Einherjar86]

Back in Maine after a brief sojourn to Ann Arbor, Michigan to visit the university there. They really like me, but they might only take one or two out of 40-50 applicants for next year, so my chances are slim, but not hopeless. Most likely I'll get into Iowa, and then can try Michigan again once I shoot for the PhD level.

U of M is a good fucking school. I'm applying there for an English PhD. Good luck!

 

[Zephyrus]

Zeph, are you still planning on being a professor?

Absolutely. Hell, people already address me as such since I dress up every day and they can't square it in their heads that you don't have to be a professor to teach in college. I'm just an adjunct.

Then again, seeing my name and office room number on that little board as you go into the building where I teach does give me delusions of grandeur.

 

[Einherjar86]

I tell my students to call me "professor" even though I'm only an adjunct. I'm not old enough to be a "mister."

 

[King Richard]

I have never called a teacher of mine professor or sir or mister or master or any of that shit.

 

[Zephyrus]

I'm Jeremy to my students. Mr. Swist doesn't sit right with me yet.

 

[unknown]

I have my students call me professor. A few days before the semester started, a professor I ran into was very emphatic I (and my fellow grad colleagues) do this. I just told them don't call me "Dr. Koger" because I don't have a PhD

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Letters of recommendation scare me. I don't talk to any of my professors and if I asked for one right now it would be like "Yo, I got an A in your class, can has letter?" Fourth year of college and I still don't have any research experience.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

Should of spent less time being a retard on the internet.

 

[Srontgorrth]

Der Morgenstern is back into hater mode, lulz.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

Pfft. I don't hate. I just spread the truth.

 

[Srontgorrth]

I suppose that works too

 

[Einherjar86]

I have my students call me professor. A few days before the semester started, a professor I ran into was very emphatic I (and my fellow grad colleagues) do this. I just told them don't call me "Dr. Koger" because I don't have a PhD

Same here. I don't want them calling me by my first name because I worry that they might start feeling like I'm their friend and not their teacher.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

Mine call me by my first name since I give them the benefit of the doubt that they are intelligent enough to maintain the distinction between friend and teacher, regardless of what name they call me by.

 

[Einherjar86]

I teach at a community college. Some of my students are older than me. I have them call me professor because I think it's really easy in that atmosphere to lapse into a kind of "friendly" relationship.

 

[King Richard]

That makes it even worse. There's no fucking way I'd ever call someone at a community college "professor." No offense though.