Finding new paths in academia and outside the ivory walls. Awkward encounters in the halls of the ivory tower are certainly not unusual. But then one day I was the perpetrator of an awkward encounter with a prospective PhD student visiting campus.

November 20, 2014 by thedustbiter. We have everything we need plus a little extra.

A blog about education, higher ed, teaching, and starting my own education business. Sunday, October 30, 2011. College Ready Writing Has Moved. Welcome to College Ready Writing, Version 1. I am no longer updating this space regularly, but please head over to Inside Higher Ed for Version 2. Thanks for clicking, reading, responding. Lee Skallerup Bessette, PhD. Tuesday, October 25, 2011. CRW is Moving Up! Over the past two years. It is because of you that I am able to.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012. My dad would have been 75 today. Eight years ago, just a week after his birthday, he passed away from complications following surgery for an aneurysm. But these memories are few. Is still one of my favorites.

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The PhD and Everything After. Your Dissertation Lit Review was a Waste of Time, and Other Lessons from the Service Economy. The last few posts have described my latest post-academic gig at a tech firm where I am paid hourly to do administrative work. The firm may be temporary too. Who can tell? Did it result in more business for the firm? That there won.

Where too much tech meets too much education. 8220;What makes a Muppet, a Muppet? 8221; wondered our designer.

I took this selfie after writing this piece. This was written at the end of an intense affair with an otherwise-engaged man in 2007. We used to have a joke about me being poisonous.

And then suddenly in the two weeks between then and now, my stupid brain has been trying to fall in love with my job. And wanting to do it.

But trust me, you know things.