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After Killing the Thesis Dragon, There's the Grand Poobah Stage to Look Forward To

Jul 16, 2008

At The Daily Transcript, Alex Palazzo asks, if your life were a video game, what would it be like? Palazzo envisions his as a series of levels, complete with monsters -- the doctoral thesis would be a dragon to slay. He's only reached Level Three, postdoctoral fellow, and imagines the next levels to include assistant professor, professor, and then maybe grand poobah.

GTO thinks that if the job-finding dragon has eighteen heads, then the tenure monster must have poisonous fangs.

 

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