When I started my first tenure-track position, I found quickly that while I enjoyed earning a paycheck, I missed my doctoral program. I missed the intellectual camaraderie, the mentorship by my professors, and even the small college town where I had lived. I loved my job and my new colleagues, but it was weird being a “genuine adult” after so many years of school.
What do you miss about your days as a graduate student?
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7 Responses to Remembering “Paradise”
prairiechick - October 7, 2011 at 12:37 pm
So where would you place Thomas Wolfe or Ernest Hemingway?
allan_metcalf - October 7, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Hemingway is Teflon for sure, with those beautiful plain sentences. Not so sure about Wolfe.
prairiechick - October 7, 2011 at 1:20 pm
I agree with you about Hemingway. Count me among the Tefcroni!
gregperson - October 8, 2011 at 7:37 pm
Vonnegut: velcro
John Irving: teflon
Henry Miller: velcro
Fitzgerald: teflon
julianf - October 10, 2011 at 10:48 am
Does this also apply to non-fiction writing? If so, are there any velcro philosophers? Perhaps some continental philosophers would qualify. Certainly Nietzsche.
What about historians? Jacques Barzun?
julianf - October 10, 2011 at 11:45 am
http://youtu.be/VsTfvuEOhYo
beedhamm - October 10, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Alice Munro and Kazuo Ishiguro spring to mind as two who fit in both categories.