Lies Academics Believe
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Lies Academics Believe
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#2Lie #1. Concentrating all the time doesn't warp your sanity.
Oh, but it does.
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#3I mean stereotype of the head-in-the-clouds ivory tower academic comes from somewhere I guess, but most of the folks I've met in academics have been a bit more pragmatic than this list would seem to indicate.
Especially in STEM, where every grad student thinks they are the unique person who has their head on straight and is just waiting to bail for industry.
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#4> Pedantry and insight are the same thing
Never met any academic who believed that pedantry and insight are the same thing.
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#5The biggest most unfortunate lie is "I'll get a job at the end which will make this all worthwhile and not the most expensive waste of time and mental health imaginable." This lie is told from all sides. Universities say it. Advisors say it. Postdocs say it. Parents say it. Students say it to themselves and to each other.
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#6> Pedantry and insight are the same thing Never met any academic who believed that pedantry and insight are the same thing.
Thank you for this insight.
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#7> Pedantry and insight are the same thing Never met any academic who believed that pedantry and insight are the same thing.
Pedants don't think they're pedants. Like Carlin said, anyone driving faster than you is a maniac, anyone driving slower is a moron. (Anyone less rigorous than you is sloppy, anyone more is a pedant.)
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#8The biggest most unfortunate lie is "I'll get a job at the end which will make this all worthwhile and not the most expensive waste of time and mental health imaginable." This lie is told from all sides. Universities say it. Advisors say it. Postdocs say it. Parents say it. Students say it to themselves and to each other.
In English-speaking countries, being in 'academia' usually means being employed in a research and/or teaching capacity at a uni and not working towards a degree anymore. Some may say being faculty, post-docs are a bit in between.
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#9"This is a real problem"
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#10I'm outside Academia so I'm asking, but you don't think that the idea of "Engineering doesn't matter" has started to change with the introduction of AI and ML into business and the popularization of CS in modern culture?