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This book contains humorous recollections of the messiness and confusion that fill the days of a pre-tenure academic from graduate school through the post-doc, and into the assistant professor days. The stories recount the experiences of pre-tenure academics in the thick of things and trying perhaps unsuccessfully to make sense of it all. Memoirs are assembled into three sections that roughly map onto the chronology of academic life, beginning with reflections on the graduate school and job search experience, teaching, research and service, and the challenges of family and academic identity. The book is neither a "how-to," nor does it emphasize "lessons learned" on the way to tenure. Instead, the collection earnestly, and with good humor, captures a significant and meaningful slice of the experience of pursuing academia in contemporary colleges and universities. For the doctoral student or newly hired faculty member, these essays will hopefully provide some comfort with their implicit suggestion that, while it s certainly hard work, you are not alone.
