A small but growing cohort of my husband's PhD friends & classmates are now getting offers for tenure track positions. It's a little weird - no, scratch that - it's a lot weird. Does it ever get less weird to know your grad school friends are professors?
I remember getting shitfaced with these people at their thesis defense parties.
I remember dressing up in costume with them for Halloween parties (and subsequently getting hammered).
I remember the intrigue and excitement of their first significant others in grad school.
I remember their weddings (not to those inaugural significant others), and I know I'll remember their children's birthdays.
I was looking back at some photos from our first year here (holy fuck was that a long time ago - look how skinny everyone was! That was before PersonX and PersonY weren't speaking to one another!) and got super nostalgic about the whole thing. It's amazing that universities are giving these folks the keys to their own labs. Someday I'll get to regale their grad students with "I knew So-And-So when he was in grad school - and this one time..."
I'm sure they'll be wildly successful - and I wish them the best.
Friday, May 7, 2010
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Yes, I am learning more and more how professors select the "suggested reviewers" when submitting manuscripts. Ha. Drinking buddies.
ReplyDeleteIf certain faculty members at my current institution are any indication, the getting hammered part doesn't exactly peter out once one is on tenure track (and CERTAINLY not once one has achieved tenure).
ReplyDeletePlease reconsider telling 'advisor's student days' stories to grad students. My advisor (A) graduated with a PhD and now has tenure at the same school. Every new person I meet mocks my advisor and tells a silly or embarrassing story about when A was a student. This includes other professors, technicians, and administrative staff.
ReplyDeleteGenerally, they seem to respect my advisor, so I don't think the mocking is meant to be harmful. I think it's more because they watched my advisor grow up as a scientist. But, it seems very disrespectful and makes me extremely uncomfortable. I really don't care what my advisor was like 10+ years ago and I wish people would stop telling me.