I was thinking of becoming a university professor. But I was deterred by the
thought of all those years as a lowly graduate student grading the work of
undergraduates. And then all those years clawing my way through the ranks of
academia and grading the work of graduate students. Then all those years of
publications and peer review. Endless grading, no end to grading. Can anyone
tell me if there is a golden path to excellence that short circuits all that
boring grading? Thanks in advance for the help.

Ms. 2 wrote:
I was thinking of becoming a university professor. But I was deterred by the
thought of all those years as a lowly graduate student grading the work of
undergraduates. And then all those years clawing my way through the ranks of
academia and grading the work of graduate students. Then all those years of
publications and peer review. Endless grading, no end to grading. Can anyone
tell me if there is a golden path to excellence that short circuits all that
boring grading? Thanks in advance for the help.


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In sci.physics Ms. 2 wrote:
I was thinking of becoming a university professor. But I was deterred by the
thought of all those years as a lowly graduate student grading the work of
undergraduates. And then all those years clawing my way through the ranks of
academia and grading the work of graduate students. Then all those years of
publications and peer review. Endless grading, no end to grading. Can anyone
tell me if there is a golden path to excellence that short circuits all that
boring grading? Thanks in advance for the help.

Buy lottery tickets.


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On Apr 16, 5:20*pm, "Ms. 2" wrote:
I was thinking of becoming a university professor. But I was deterred by the
thought of all those years as a lowly graduate student grading the work of
undergraduates. And then all those years clawing my way through the ranks of
academia and grading the work of graduate students. Then all those years of
publications and peer review. Endless grading, no end to grading. Can anyone
tell me if there is a golden path to excellence that short circuits all that
boring grading? Thanks in advance for the help.

Buy out your teaching responsibilities.

Ms. 2 wrote:
I was thinking of becoming a university professor. But I was deterred by the
thought of all those years as a lowly graduate student grading the work of
undergraduates. And then all those years clawing my way through the ranks of
academia and grading the work of graduate students. Then all those years of
publications and peer review. Endless grading, no end to grading. Can anyone
tell me if there is a golden path to excellence that short circuits all that
boring grading? Thanks in advance for the help.



Come on, teaching is also fun. Currently I have a 10 week 10 students
project, they are designing a virtual planetary satellite mission and it
is always fun to supervise the project.

Q

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On Apr 16, 9:20*pm, "Ms. 2" wrote:
I was thinking of becoming a university professor. But I was deterred by the
thought of all those years as a lowly graduate student grading the work of
undergraduates. And then all those years clawing my way through the ranks of
academia and grading the work of graduate students. Then all those years of
publications and peer review. Endless grading, no end to grading. Can anyone
tell me if there is a golden path to excellence that short circuits all that
boring grading? Thanks in advance for the help.

Well, most people with brains build self-replicating machines,
GPS, self-assembling robots, holograms, optical computers, HDTV,
and on-line publishing
anymore.Since many of those universty jobs were invented to study
Precambrian weather than logic, science, or intelligence anyway.

Ms. 2 wrote:
I was thinking of becoming a university professor. But I was deterred by the
thought of all those years as a lowly graduate student grading the work of
undergraduates. And then all those years clawing my way through the ranks of
academia and grading the work of graduate students. Then all those years of
publications and peer review. Endless grading, no end to grading. Can anyone
tell me if there is a golden path to excellence that short circuits all that
boring grading? Thanks in advance for the help.


Obviously, you have no intention of working at all.

/BAH

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:32:16 -0400, jmfbahciv jmfbahciv@aol wrote:

Ms. 2 wrote:
I was thinking of becoming a university professor. But I was deterred by the
thought of all those years as a lowly graduate student grading the work of
undergraduates. And then all those years clawing my way through the ranks of
academia and grading the work of graduate students. Then all those years of
publications and peer review. Endless grading, no end to grading. Can anyone
tell me if there is a golden path to excellence that short circuits all that
boring grading? Thanks in advance for the help.


Obviously, you have no intention of working at all.

/BAH

The above exchange is one sock puppet talking to himself.
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On Apr 16, 8:20*pm, "Ms. 2" wrote:
I was thinking of becoming a university professor. But I was deterred by the
thought of all those years as a lowly graduate student grading the work of
undergraduates. And then all those years clawing my way through the ranks of
academia and grading the work of graduate students. Then all those years of
publications and peer review. Endless grading, no end to grading. Can anyone
tell me if there is a golden path to excellence that short circuits all that
boring grading? Thanks in advance for the help.

You could be a perpetual post-doc. Some folks do that.
No teaching responsibilities except cleaning up graduate student
disasters.

This, however, is not really a golden path to excellence.
More like an aluminum path to passable competence.

On Apr 17, 1:57 pm, PD wrote:

You could be a perpetual post-doc. Some folks do that.
No teaching responsibilities except cleaning up graduate student
disasters.

This, however, is not really a golden path to excellence.
More like an aluminum path to passable competence.

Yeah. works pretty well if you are a mildly competent researcher. The
only problem is that if you are brilliant, credit for all your
wondrous insight and and discoveries will be grabbed by the full
professor you are working for. Of course, you do get the satisfaction
of knowing your hard work made the life of a fellow human being
better...