{"id":168,"date":"2003-01-15T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-15T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=168"},"modified":"2003-01-15T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-15T11:47:00","slug":"me-and-my-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Me and my shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sophomore from my alma mater, <a href=\u201chttp:\/\/www.haverford.edu\u201d>Haverford College<\/a>, is shadowing me around this week for a few days.  Haverford and <a href=\u201chttp:\/\/www.brynmawr.edu\u201d>Bryn Mawr College<\/a>, which share the same career office for students, calls these externships (as opposed to internships, though I don\u2019t understand why), and James is the third externship who\u2019s visited me in the last 5 years.  Last year\u2019s extern, Andreja, came during an incredibly dramatic time, shortly after our university Board of Trustees announced it wanted to fire a tenured professor, and she was there for an emergency faculty senate meeting that clearly disapproved of the administration\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n<p>This year, life is more normal (well, apart from the <a href=\u201chttp:\/\/www.uffusf.org\u201d>local union chapter<\/a>\u2018s struggles with the administration), so he\u2019s getting the more typical mix of faculty activities at the beginning of the semester.  He\u2019s been to both of my classes this week, seen two hours of spine-tingling editing (<em>where\u2019s the antecedent?<\/em>&#151;yes, we have the next candidate for Reality TV), looked at several research proposals, seen several reviews I\u2019ve written for a refereed journal, watched as I created an on-line quiz, and seen me rush around as I usually do this time of the semester.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes, he\u2019s seen the pre-Disastered Office.<\/p>\n<p><em>Now, was I supposed to encourage him to go to grad school, or not?<\/em>  We\u2019ve talked a bit about what graduate school is like, what academics are like, and he\u2019s asked the logical question:  What else can someone who has a degree in European history before 1918 do with a Ph.D.?  I suggested the booklet on the subject published by the <a href=\u201chttp:\/\/www.theaha.org\u201d>American Historical Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sophomore from my alma mater, Haverford College, is shadowing me around this week for a few days. Haverford and Bryn Mawr College, which share the same career office for students, calls these externships (as opposed to internships, though I don\u2019t understand why), and James is the third externship who\u2019s visited me in the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-2I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}