A couple of link-worthy posts dealing with the true nature of academia:<\/p>\n
Over at the Little Professor, Miriam Burstein addresses the movie cliches of academia<\/a> (spinning off a post at Michael Berube’s blog<\/a>).<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Dr. Free-Ride discusses the finer points of tailoring academic regalia<\/a>, which is useful information as graduation season approaches. (My own cheap robes came with a zipper in the front, and I use a safety pin to hold the hood in place…)<\/p>\n And the Dean Dad has a nice discussion of the permanence of temporary solutions<\/a> in the academic world.<\/p>\n As for my own glamorous academic life, I spent the morning doing yard work, a lazy afternoon reading outside, and now I’m going to spend the first Saturday evening with pleasant weather in ages grading papers on the couch. I tell you, the fun just never ends…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of link-worthy posts dealing with the true nature of academia: Over at the Little Professor, Miriam Burstein addresses the movie cliches of academia (spinning off a post at Michael Berube’s blog). Meanwhile, Dr. Free-Ride discusses the finer points of tailoring academic regalia, which is useful information as graduation season approaches. (My own cheap… Continue reading Fact and Fiction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}