Trips home can be great.
I am currently sitting in the JC Panera Bread Company. I enjoy unlimited free refills on Diet Coke and I also like the free internet connection. You also never know who you will see here.
As I was busy working on my course for the fall, I notice that one of the professors from the Tusuculum College search committee is here. You will recall that I interviewed up here for a job at Tusculum but they went with two "inside candidates" who were visiting professors there. The search committee made it very obvious that research and scholarship were frowned upon at their school and, when I assured them that I would find the time to write a book they seemed to lose interest. They hired their two candidates, both of whom went to UT, which is ranked decidedly lower than my school.
So I go up to him. I say "Dr. Such and Such. I was a job candidate at Tusuculum for one of the searches that you hired the inside candidate for." He was a bit taken aback and then we kept "chatting" and he said "It was the advantage of being on site and doing a good job." TO which I replied "so much for those of us who didn't go to UT."
Didn't add a thing to my resume, but boy that exchange made me feel good. Rat bastards.
Monday, August 06, 2007
Irony is a bitch
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I remember being told by Dr. Zinser at ETSU that my GRE scores wouldn't cut it for a general psych MS program (apparently ETSU was only accepting "PhD level GREs," which prompted me to ask what a student with PhD level GREs would want from ETSU), and he doubted that even a clinical program would accept me.
Fast forward to me bumping into him on the elevator at the SEPA conference in New Orleans, while I was presenting a study during my last semester of my 2nd year. Man, I was so happy to see him!! For all of two floors, he was my bestest friend.
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