academic

class conflict

corporation

millennial

freeloader

Boomer

twin

infinity

mathematics

existentialism

pessimism

Arthur Schopenhauer

collective noun

airplane

conference

doctor

graduate student

graduate school

academia

academics

New Year's Eve

email

multitasking

research

overwork

grantwriting

dissertation

doctoral advisor

confusion

intellectual

scholar

bullshitter

bullshit

is a person whose job it was to tell us how to solve the problems of life which he himself had avoided by becoming a professor.

A person whose job it was to tell us how to solve the problems of life which he himself had avoided by becoming a professor (anonymous)

is one who wields culture as an instrument to manufacture academics, who, when their turn comes, will manufacture academics.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors. Simone Weil

is one who cares more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true. Isaiah Berlin

is today, no longer the unworldly innocuous scholar wrapped up in the arcane, but is instead, a wised-up, ambitious person, more interested in deals and endowments, and the invention of lucrative new subdisciplines.

'In the 1950s, the stereotypical academic looked a bit like Nabokov's Pnin: unworldly, innocuous, absorbed in the arcane. Today, the role model more nearly resembles a character in Don DeLillo's White Noise: wised-up, ambitious, more interested in deals and endowments, and the invention of lucrative new subdisciplines.'

is one who gets paid for being clever, not for being right.

Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.

is of, or pertaining to, fossils; vegetative; parasitic; the opposite of change, viable, evolution.

is someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.

academic, n.Definitions

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