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Hollywood and Vine, California and Lake | Cosmic Variance ...
Academia | The e-Astronomer (Andy Lawrence) visited Caltech last week, but I missed his talks since I was traveling myself. He posits an interesting comparison between yo.

Lisa Wu-Hartwell: Changing Faces?? « Hollywood and Vine
Hollywood and Vine understand that individuals fall into fucked up business situations. But take your bankruptcy like a real bitch and stop changing your name like you're in a fucking federal witness protection program. In a minute… ...

Hollywood and Vine, California and Lake
The e-Astronomer (Andy Lawrence) visited Caltech last week, but I missed his talks since I was traveling myself. He posits an interesting comparison between young hopefuls in academia and The Industry — hanging around, trying to get ...

Stars on Hollywood and Vine « The e-Astronomer
Stars on Hollywood and Vine. Spent the last few days at Caltech, selling my wares - a colloquium that covered both UKIDSS science highlights and and AstroGrid tools, another talk on why I don't believe in donuts, and various bits of VO ...

Comment on Hollywood and Vine, California and Lake by Reset ...
re-start ? Meanwhile Sean Carroll leveraged my “Hollywood and Vine” post concept, but his post is getting all the comments !! (OK, he had a nice picture and a better title…) Then [...]

Comment on Hollywood and Vine, California and Lake by Mark H
Sean correctly notes that scientists-in-training have it better than aspiring actors. Here are two other reasons the grad students hanging around in the lounge can be a little less nervous:. 1) It seems to me that the odds are much more ...

Comment on Hollywood and Vine, California and Lake by spyder
When i promote graduate school to the students i mentor, i strongly advocate for the education part of the concept. No one, no matter how focussed and skilled they are at any task, can be guaranteed a life-supporting job in that ...

Comment on Hollywood and Vine, California and Lake by Julianne
ST & Curious — I've been running grad admissions for many years now. I can say securely that it is almost impossible to deduce from a graduate school application who's going to wind up as a tenure track professor and who isn't. ...

Comment on Hollywood and Vine, California and Lake by Eugene
Mark H. echoed my thoughts exactly, and he even has the same name and first initial of his last of someone I know exactly who decided that Academia is not for him and now happily rakes in the big bucks elsewhere. ...

Comment on Hollywood and Vine, California and Lake by Sean
Well, let's imagine that we put the question to the people who would actually be affected by such a policy. “Dear Applicant: Ordinarily, we would have been happy to accept you into graduate school here at Awesome U. ...