advantages of gaining full professorship, #6

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danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: So Tuesday was a pretty good day....:

6) Something better than that stupid f@#%ing pen ceremony. As this site observes, "The scene in the movie A Beautiful Mind in which mathematics professors ritualistically present pens to Nash was completely fabricated in Hollywood. No such custom exists."

In the actual ceremony, colleagues ritualistically present signed and notarized statements in which they confess that they were in error when they labeled your research as "putrid swill" back when you were a post-doc.

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Re: Faculty reality--even worse than you thought

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my ex- from the 90s said that the archaeologist lead actor in the original Stargate film was accurate (in terms of the office size and mess). she was an archae grad from Bryn Mayr, so I assume she knows what she's talking about.

not that the office was on screen for long.

and thanks!