Quite often, folks from my Former Life (=when I was a graduate student) ask me "What is it like to be a post doc?" I never have an adequate response for them, and I am not sure why. Perhaps because I do not feel fully transitioned from grad student status. Perhaps because a postdoc is inherently such a betwix-and-between category in academia. Perhaps because I do not feel I know enough about what postdocs are supposed to be/do in order to accurately compare my current experiences. Whatever the reason, I can only report what it is that I do now without wrapping all this up as some accurate description of "Postdoc-ing."
But others have thought more about this issue and--even better--have blogged about it. So for everyone who has asked me about postdoc life and then walked away thinking I was a complete idiot in my non-response, hop over to the first ever Carnival of Postdocs for enlightenment.
Posted by perry032 at February 20, 2007 12:40 PM | TrackBack