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astra_nomer) wrote2007-07-27 10:23 am
astra_nomer) wrote2007-07-27 10:23 am
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Celebrity science
My friend, M-Lo, likes to gripe about how faculty search committees tend to look for "rock stars" - splashy, self-promoting, and usually male.
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ukelele informed me, sometimes they really are rock stars.
I also recently read that Danica McKellar (Winnie from "the Wonder Years") recently wrote a book on math for middle schoole girls called "Math Doesn't Suck." She apparently also has a Bacon-Erdos number of 6.
I'm clearly going about this academia business in entirely the wrong way - I ought to be developing my singing/acting career first. Good thing I've recently been cast in the musical "Carousel." It's only a chorus role, but as much as I would have liked to get a bigger role, I can't really afford that kind of time commitment. But it ought to look good on the CV anyway, right?
As
ukelele informed me, sometimes they really are rock stars.I also recently read that Danica McKellar (Winnie from "the Wonder Years") recently wrote a book on math for middle schoole girls called "Math Doesn't Suck." She apparently also has a Bacon-Erdos number of 6.
I'm clearly going about this academia business in entirely the wrong way - I ought to be developing my singing/acting career first. Good thing I've recently been cast in the musical "Carousel." It's only a chorus role, but as much as I would have liked to get a bigger role, I can't really afford that kind of time commitment. But it ought to look good on the CV anyway, right?