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WCDT Strips 3650-3655 (8th to 12th January 2018)
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 10 Jan 2018, 23:32 ---This is absolutely the start of an arc that gets Faye to ask Bubbles out isn't it? Like it just is.
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What, Faye directly demonstrating that she doesn't even contemplate the idea of a female partner as a remote possibility?
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Jan 2018, 01:23 ---Here's a thought (a variant of one that I had before I got a decent handle on Evie and Amanda's relationship): Maybe the professors at Smif will be so impressed with Evie that, dependent on the outcome of her PhD, they'll offer her tenure at the college.
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No offense Ben, but it’s clear you have never worked in an academic environment, if only from your misuse of the word “tenure” as it is used in the academic world. It is just barely conceivable that Smif might invite Evie to interview for a postdoctoral fellowship based on a well-received paper. But tenure is typically only given to someone who has been employed in a department for years and has risen through the ranks from lowly adjunct to full professor. Tenure means complete academic freedom and guaranteed lifetime employment - typically tenured professors can only be dismissed for severe misconduct or illegal activity (and sometimes not even for that.) It’s a long term career goal, not something anyone is given right out of the starting gate.
JoeCovenant:
I Love Faye.
I Love Bubbles.
I just don't wanna see "Faybles"...
:oops:
cesium133:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 11 Jan 2018, 04:39 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Jan 2018, 01:23 ---Here's a thought (a variant of one that I had before I got a decent handle on Evie and Amanda's relationship): Maybe the professors at Smif will be so impressed with Evie that, dependent on the outcome of her PhD, they'll offer her tenure at the college.
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No offense Ben, but it’s clear you have never worked in an academic environment, if only from your misuse of the word “tenure” as it is used in the academic world. It is just barely conceivable that Smif might invite Evie to interview for a postdoctoral fellowship based on a well-received paper. But tenure is typically only given to someone who has been employed in a department for years and has risen through the ranks from lowly adjunct to full professor. Tenure means complete academic freedom and guaranteed lifetime employment - typically tenured professors can only be dismissed for severe misconduct or illegal activity (and sometimes not even for that.) It’s a long term career goal, not something anyone is given right out of the starting gate.
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I was going to respond, as an academic who is currently trying to escape academia, but you beat me to it. Little AIs running around everywhere and their inventor living on a space station, sure, but if Evie was offered tenure while still in grad school, that would be beyond suspension of disbelief.
Shjade:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 11 Jan 2018, 05:03 ---
I Love Faye.
I Love Bubbles.
I just don't wanna see "Faybles"...
:oops:
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So you're more of a Bubblayé fan?
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