September 12, 2003

Shameless Self-Promotion

By JAMES M. LANG

Having a successful academic career depends largely upon your talents at tooting your own horn

I attended my first academic conference during my second year of graduate school. While I was there, I ran into a professor whom I had studied with as an undergraduate, and who had written a letter of recommendation for me for graduate school. I saw him at the tables the conference had set up to sell books by the presenters and keynote speakers.

Before I went over to say hello, I

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