Transition Q & A: Sonja Streuber

Yesterday my Q & A with Sonja Streuber was posted on my University Affairs blog. Here’s an excerpt:

You left your graduate program ABD, without earning a PhD. Why?

Multiple reasons:

. . . 2. Personal experience. I had colleagues who had already graduated with their PhDs, who were financing their job searches with anything, from adjuncting to playing organ in a movie theater. One of my friends got a visiting assistant prof job at Puget Sound โ€” when it wasnโ€™t extended, she walked into the woods with a shotgun and returned feet first. I actively pulled another one off the window ledge in the office building.

Oh my! Now go read the whole thing.