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What's Livetweeting For, Anyway? →

August 11, 2016

Today, the Junto features a post I put together with help from a lot of academic-conference-going friends on Twitter. 

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Placement.
Waiting.
“It is all but impossible for us to structure our lives around the things that are most in line with our deepest personal values when we are driven to focus on those things that will create distinction for us, that will allow us to compare ourselves—or our institutions—favorably with one another. … And no amount of trying to persuade ourselves, or our administrations, or our legislatures of the public good that we, our fields, and our institutions serve will take root unless we figure out how to step off the competitive track, to live the multiplicity of our academic lives in ways that diverge from the singular path now laid out before us.”
You really need only one star to align.
Seeing the world.
Let’s do this.
Deep breath.
Scraping by.

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