Monday, December 24, 2007

The Twelve Days of Tenure

On the twelfth glance at her case, what did we all see:

     12 people asking her questions in her office,
11 times taught Intro Programming,
10 journal articles,
9 pieces of software,
8 book chapters,
7 invited panels,
6 submitted articles,
5 mil-lion bucks!,
4 invited talks,
3 students,
2 post-docs, and
a degree from MIT.

NOTE: The 12 days of Christmas is (easily) the most satirized song ever. I used to maintain a website of satires of it here but it was too hard to keep up? Why? Because anyone can write one. I wrote the one above in about 10 minutes during a faculty meeting to decide someone's Tenure case.

4 comments:

  1. I don't get the first one ("12 people asking questions in her office"??)

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  2. Also see http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=955

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  3. lance fortnow lost weigth and looks terrific.

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  4. Really? Is that all it takes?

    Is your university hiring? Awesome!

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