for the academics amongst us

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    Tenureclocky

    by Dany Adams
    Department of Biological Sciences
    Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
    Drawing by Lois Malone

    (with apologies to Lewis Carroll)

    http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume7/v7i4/tenureclocky.html

    "Sheıs Brilliant!" so the Ivy grove
    Did hire the nimble-minded maid.
    All flimsy were her bookish robes
    Her bona fides displayed.

    "Beware the Tenureclock, young one,
    Donıt pause at night or flaws theyıll catch.
    Be sure you publish blurbs, and shun
    The populous intro class!"

    She took an undergrad in hand.
    Long time the grant of dough she sought.
    And tested she her theory.
    And swelled a file. And taught.

    And as she published what she could,
    The Tenureclock, with eyes of flame,
    Came sniffing round for moldy wood
    And prospecting for fame.

    "No clue whatıs due ? Youıre never through!"
    The maidıs keyboard went click and clack.
    She felt half dead, but pushed ahead
    Around the tenure track.

    And did she tame the Tenureclock ?
    Overcome all academic strife ?
    Sheıs taken her MacArthur grant
    And gone to get a life.

    "Sheıs Brilliant!" so the Ivy grove
    Did hire the nimble-minded maid.
    All flimsy were her bookish robes
    Her bona fides displayed.

    İ Copyright 2001 Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)

    This HotAIR feature first appeared in VOLUME 7-ISSUE 4 of the print
    magazine.

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