tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851614.post114788988283257865..comments2023-12-21T05:18:05.820-05:00Comments on Lemming's Progress: savaged by a rogue pheasantlemminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06767103318863906140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851614.post-1147900464333867262006-05-17T17:14:00.000-04:002006-05-17T17:14:00.000-04:00Well, Lemming, there's an old Latvian folk proverb...Well, Lemming, there's an old Latvian folk proverb that says, "Never ask an idiot with a keyboard for advice, for he is sure to oblige."<BR/><BR/>(Or maybe there isn't an old Latvian folk proverb to that effect. But if there's not, there maybe should be.)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, my advice -- worth nearly every cent that it costs you -- is to persevere. You set out to become Dr. Lemming for a reason: I would assume it's because that's what you want. Unless you've truly changed your mind about that, don't let these so-and-so's stop you. Revise, resubmit, defend, whatever it takes ... and let us know here that you're still on track, because we're needy that way.<BR/><BR/>With all respect to John B., I don't know that I'd be teaching high school ... and it doesn't have a thing to do with the money (which actually ain't all that bad). I'd avoid it because education at the secondary level or lower is basically prison: your students are required to be there. Some of them may want to be there anyway, but the compulsion sets the atmosphere. Might as well go ahead and be a corrections officer directly, and eliminate the middleman.<BR/><BR/>I close with an old Ugandan folk proverb: "Take my advice ... I'm certainly not using it."Jim Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07358539074647113747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851614.post-1147892534826236252006-05-17T15:02:00.000-04:002006-05-17T15:02:00.000-04:00In all seriousness, have you ever thought of teach...In all seriousness, have you ever thought of teaching on the high school level? You strike me as having the teaching passion, and you probably already have the credentials (minus the student teaching?).<BR/><BR/>You seem to have a passion to teach, less so to research. I'll bet that high school students would do good to learn social studies/history/givernment from you.<BR/><BR/>The pay won't be as good, but we need good high school teachers.John Burzynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01150703086918637288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851614.post-1147892382964599422006-05-17T14:59:00.000-04:002006-05-17T14:59:00.000-04:00Just to set the record straight, I am down to eati...Just to set the record straight, I am down to eating Hostess for breakfast roughly twice a week.<BR/><BR/>I replaced Hostess with Burger King's Enormous Omelet Sandwich 2 or 3 times a week. One sausage patty, two eggs, two American cheese slices and three strips of bacon, all on a bun.<BR/><BR/>For those still counting, that's four layers of breakfast with 730 calories oozing 47 grams of fat. <BR/><BR/>And best of all I can eat it while driving to work.<BR/><BR/>Now you know why my wife calls me an animal.John Burzynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01150703086918637288noreply@blogger.com