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Most telling quote: As long as it doesn't require me to do any math, I will write anything.
by Eliezer 16y ago
Most telling quote: As long as it doesn't require me to do any math, I will write anything.
- groaner 16y agoMaybe the "shadow scholars" that do know math are too busy with their even better-paid assignments (supply vs. demand, after all) to interview with the Chronicle.
- stcredzero 16y agoMaybe the "shadow scholars" that do know math are too busy with their even better-paid assignments I think that opportunists with those abilities went to work for Wall Street. Some people call them quants. I suspect it's much more lucrative than any crumb gathering around academia.
- thebooktocome 16y agoYou know, maybe after I finish my Ph. D. in maths, I can go on to become the "Shadow Scholar" for online math courses. ... That actually kind of sounds like fun.
- hyperbovine 16y agoSomething tells me you'd manage to sell about one problem set per assignment. Live by the sword, die by the sword :-)
- kenjackson 16y agoMath shadow scholars probably don't pay well. Most of my math courses had a large fraction of the grade based on an in class test, not homework.