alt-ac Archives - Grace Conyers
10
Sep
2014
2014
The first steps in setting up your transition
The challenge ahead of you as you create your own alternative path depends a great deal on where you are now, and where you want to be. While the pivoting starts here, it doesn’t demand a great deal of planning out minute details. This may seem counter intuitive, but as any productivity coach will tell […]
04
Jun
2014
2014
Meet the world of “Alt-ac”
Alternative academia, or alt-ac as people fond of short phrases call it, is not new, but it is making it’s buzz around academia. There are whole essays devoted to defining “alt-ac”. In short, is where recent graduates, specifically with their Ph.Ds, go when they don’t take the traditional track that leads to being a tenured […]
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I'm never sure whether I should read this as a philosophy or history book. This time as I listened to the audio, it was with the eye of history. I found it pretty interesting from this aspect, and even at times laughable with the vernacu...
I don't know why I insist on torturing myself by exploring other genres of books that are just not for me. It's easier when they are audiobooks droning on in the background, not something I have to physically waste time on.
And this bo...
Always a classic, but so much easier to get through in text rather than audio form for me.
If you're new to space, I'd highly recommend this to you as it's a fun book with a playful tone and lots of knowledge. There's some sarcasm, but the it's playful.
If you're an old hand at astrophysics, I'd recommend skipping right on b...
I got my annual read of some sort of literotica over with early this year courtesy of Strep Throat keeping me inside and stir-crazy. This was... just about like all the others out there of this genre to me: Hilarious in parts, predictabl...
