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If you do post this on the CHE, can you link it back here? I'd love to follow this, as it's an important issue.

I just want to reiterate what others have said about finding your own schedule. For example, my wife would subsist on peanut butter and cheddar cheese if I didn't cook, so I like getting home by 7 to cook dinner. I have also found that I prefer to work some amount every day, rather than attempt to get going again after taking the weekend off. I find myself working ~6 hours every weekday and ~4 hours on the weekend days. Being able to set your own schedule means you can do just that!

Those two course probably do not include the private reading courses arranged directly with their adviser graduate students are universally expected to take as generals prep. I have already had one course where we were expected to talk intelligently about ~3 books and 2 articles (in 3 languages) every week.

This becomes more difficult when you start being assigned 70 books/articles per course. As Sigaba said, it's all about knowing how to read what when.

I use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sprint-reader-speed-readi/kejhpkmainjkpiablnfdppneidnkhdiffor PDFs, and currently feel comfortable at 550 wpm for academic stuff. I don't really remember how long it took the last time I actually read a book cover to cover, but I usually spend 1-2 hours on an academic work.

Fixed gear helps lots

You had an extra ) at the end, which I just deleted and it worked fine.

Reconstructing how you got to your answer has given me a much better understanding of how to use LaTeX documentation, by the way, so thanks for that too. Sigaba, you should learn LaTeX. I had long been looking to ditch word, and I'll not be looking back.

That is perfect. You are a lifesaver.

I am making a critical edition of a text with ednotes, attempting to italicize the biblical quotations in the main text while keeping the text which appears in the footnotes un-italicized. If it's a simple section, placing \textit before the \Anote command works fine, eg. \textit{ \Anote{ in\< principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat \>Verbum }{Jn. 1:1}} However, when not all the words in the lemma are biblical, or when lemmas overlap and I need to use \Anotelabel, I can't find a solution that keeps the footnote text un-italicized. For example, \textit{ \Anotelabel{1}in}\pause{1} principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat \resume{1}Verbum\donote{1}{Jn. 1:1}} returns the errors: misplaced \pause, misplace \resume, misplaced \donote, while \Anotelabel{1}\textit{in}\pause{1} principio erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat \resume{1}Verbum\donote{1}{Jn. 1:1}} compiles, but results in "in" being in italics in the footnotes. I am using miktex with texmaker on windows, if that makes any difference at all. Help!

I forgot to report back. The bar is indeed excellent. I'm not going to say it was a deciding factor, but it did not hurt.

“...you are an example to all the children...Because most of them are so foolish, they think it is better to keep their stupidest thoughts to themselves. You, however, understand the profound truth that you must reveal your stupidity openly. To hold your stupidity inside you is to embrace it, to cling to it, to protect it. But when you expose your stupidity, you give yourself the chance to have it caught, corrected, and replaced with wisdom. Be brave, all of you...and when you have a thought of such surpassing ignorance that you think it's actually smart, make sure to make some noise, to let your mental limitations squeak out some whimpering fart of a thought, so that you have a chance to learn.” ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

If you have a funded PhD, working a side job may be against the terms of your contract. Tolle, lege.

Wait, are we talking about are or should? Because the OP is phrased as are, and you all are talking about should.

A couple things: 1) Your post in the other thread conflates faculty at top tier schools with doctorates from top tier schools. You talk about the former, the study only covers the latter, and thus other aspects---teaching, mentorship, etc.---are relative unknowns at the point of hire. 2) Your point about resources is well-taken, but I'm not sure I would separate resources from prestige. 3) I agree completely that meritocracies are not an ideal state and that academia shouldn't be meritocratic. However, academia either needs to admit that it is not meritocratic or to start behaving like a meritocracy. 4) The overall conclusion of the paper was that you should not take an offer from a school outside the top 20%, and I think that's a useful guideline. This discussion got pretty good for a terrible troll thread followed by a Canadian pissing match

The study I linked above shows that overall institutional prestige matters an absurd amount to academia, FYI. To quote: "These results demonstrate the enormous role of institutional prestige in shaping faculty hiring across academe, both for institutions and for individuals seeking faculty positions. Prestige hierarchies are also likely to influence outcomes in other scholarly activities, including research priorities, resource allocation, and educational outcomes, either directly through prestige-sensitive decision making or indirectly through faculty placement. Despite the confounded nature of merit and social status within measurable prestige, the observed hierarchies are sufficiently steep that attributing their structure to differences in merit alone seems implausible."

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005 US schools only, unfortunately.

I think the two conclusions that we can come to are 1) grad school rankings from large agencies are super bullshit, and 2) trolls can troll successfully even after people realize they're trolls.

I mean, I'm looking for August 1, but all the listings are for June! Mildly frustrating.

It's not - no houses are on the market yet in Providence.

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Was he? I suppose Rise and Fall is at least a fantastic insight into the mentality of the generation that fought the war.

Man, that was a roller coaster start to finish.

Just remember:

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