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Author Topic: Why is the Chronicle running so many anti-faculty articles?  (Read 30346 times)
polly_mer
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hiding out from my grading. Shhh!
« Reply #195 on: August 16, 2010, 05:40:53 AM »
Quote from: farm_boy on August 15, 2010, 09:56:47 PM
Quote from: polly_mer on August 15, 2010, 05:39:39 PM
Quote from: farm_boy on August 15, 2010, 10:11:09 AM
Well, I'm gonna be a diamond someday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdc64btFrII



 unless you have plans to undergo a strenuous process of high temperature and awesome pressure.

Academia should have turned me into a diamond by now.

You are underestimating how much pressure is required.  A lot of pressure past the point of discomfort is not the same as awesome pressure.
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Quote from: voxprincipalis on March 19, 2012, 07:25:24 AM
If you haven't got either the anatomical or metaphorical balls to post your own question on a pseudonymous internet forum, then academia is the wrong job for you.
cc_alan
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Caution! Nekkid zamboni driver ahead.
« Reply #196 on: August 19, 2010, 09:20:56 AM »
Quote from: farm_boy on August 15, 2010, 09:56:47 PM
Quote from: polly_mer on August 15, 2010, 05:39:39 PM
Quote from: farm_boy on August 15, 2010, 10:11:09 AM
Well, I'm gonna be a diamond someday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdc64btFrII



 unless you have plans to undergo a strenuous process of high temperature and awesome pressure.

Academia should have turned me into a diamond by now.

You are also confusing external with internal pressure.

Alan
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Excuse me... which aisle would I find the unicorns and rainbows?

Quote from: anthroid on August 29, 2011, 07:10:32 PM
No, Alan is a man among men, striding the Earth like a Colossus with a really big bladder, wearing a tool belt.
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