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I was fortunate to learn this lesson as an undergrad. My then-advisor, who could only be described as somewhere between "monster" and "disaster", who could not
by exmadscientist 5y ago
I was fortunate to learn this lesson as an undergrad. My then-advisor, who could only be described as somewhere between "monster" and "disaster", who could not teach, could not lead a research team, and most certainly could not mentor (except as an anti-example!) somehow got promoted to full professor. Our group was shocked, and I learned something important about academia.
- inopinatus 5y ago"The politics of the university are so intense because the stakes are so low" -- Wallace Stanley Sayre¹ ¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
- selimthegrim 5y agoAlso attributed to Clark Kerr.