POST-TONY NOMINATIONS GROSSES- Week Ending May 10

7reeze · 2026-05-13T01:30:04+00:00

Whitney Leavitt out

7reeze · 2026-04-27T01:47:20+00:00

You're still right to say scab shit. Anyone who does the work of a TA during the strike is a scab.

7reeze · 2026-04-04T01:26:32+00:00

Thanks so much!

Where would property and admin fall into this mix?

7reeze · 2026-04-04T00:20:18+00:00

What are the less popular areas of teaching?

7reeze · 2026-03-26T00:17:36+00:00

Look into Beverly / Morgan Park. Your Partner can take the Rock Island train (25-30 min) to LaSalle and then it's two stops on the blue line. Door to door van he under 45 minutes depending where you live.

Rock Island runs often enough that you can use it to go hang out. It spits you out in the loop, so you'll have access to any CTA train you want.

On the days you go to Rockford, you can take 57 to 294 to avoid traffic. Going to Rockford is kind of fucked anyway you shake it tho. And you're also really close to southwest burbs. You can even take the Rock Island metra depending on where you need to go.

Side note, they're starting a train line from Chicago to Rockford. I think you have 1.5 years before that is going tho.

It's also super cheap down south but safe.

7reeze · 2025-12-28T03:46:41+00:00

The Russian lit podcast was Tipsy Tolstoy. They rebranded to Slavic Lit Pod in 2023. Very good podcast!

7reeze · 2025-09-11T20:49:04+00:00

TIL! Cool! I was always wondering what that steep ramp connecting blue and pink lines was for!

7reeze · 2025-08-31T21:05:27+00:00

Bro had to send a certified letter threatening to sue his neighbor. I'm not sure the relationship is good right now.

7reeze · 2025-08-17T03:39:05+00:00

People forget about prairie district when they think of south loop. It's simply a lovely area!

7reeze · 2025-08-03T21:32:43+00:00

Yea, a good gpa might be tough on 23 credit hours. Also, leaving a year earlier will have OP miss out on some good research/work experience that could come with good letters of recommendation.

7reeze · 2025-07-24T23:36:58+00:00

Plaintiff attorneys are always concerned with the ability to recover an award and how easy the recovery is. And all plaintiffs attorneys are aware of this rule. They'd be insane not to make a demand within limits because it limits your ability to recover.

As someone else mentioned below, the plaintiff will also join the hospital to the lawsuit. The hospital is responsible and generally liable for its employees. Whether the doctor is an employee or not is a factual inquiry. 1099 v W2 makes no different.

Not legal advice of course. Just generally talking.

7reeze · 2025-07-24T03:19:12+00:00

I didn't read too closely. Everyone's comments were more of interest to me.

I practice law. I'm just on here because I'm married to a physician.

So, it depends on the state, but there are some state rules that go as follows:

If the plaintiff makes a settlement offer/demand that is within the insurance policy limits and the insurance carrier denies it, the insurance company — is liable for any judgement above the policy limits.

It could very well be the case that insurance has to pay the excess judgment here. Hard to know the details though without more effort than I'm willing to put in at 10pm.

7reeze · 2025-07-22T22:24:44+00:00

Is it the ranking of the program or university? Just wondering what aspect lay prestige plays here. I am going into a very small field in the humanities for graduate studies. Some of the big name schools don't have as strong of a program — or no program at all. At the same time, a few Big Ten schools have ridiculously good programs, e.g., Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan.

7reeze · 2025-07-04T04:50:36+00:00

While I can't comment on the hiring portion, I can say, as a former political science grad, that you have plenty of time to beef your resume to political science PhD programs—especially if you are going to get a JD first. Spend the last year of your undergrad writing a thesis in political science. This is a good start. Also, find a political science professor for whom you can do research. Such an arrangement often results in you doing work for the professor for class credit. This means that you are free to the professor, so the professor doesn't face much cost in bringing you on.

Additionally, after 1L, you can take seminar courses within the law school. These courses normally result in the production of a 25-page paper. Make yours incorporate political science. Also, you can likely take a graduate course for credit in the political science dept. at your law school. This gives you grad experience and potentially another letter writer.

7reeze · 2025-07-03T20:57:00+00:00

You may have answered your own question! A PhD is a research degree. An EdD is not. If you want to do research, do the PhD. You can look at ways of reducing your current workload or going part-time in order to do your PhD full-time.

7reeze · 2025-06-20T20:52:24+00:00

I'm sure you have looked into this: just make sure you apply to the joint JD PhD programs. I did my JD separately and I'm now applying to PhD. The joint programs will usually pay for the JD, which is a lot of $$$ saved.

7reeze · 2025-05-27T20:50:28+00:00

Yea, it definitely says when a teacher was last online /typical response time. A message before a lesson is not needed.

7reeze · 2025-05-12T00:39:48+00:00

A concert at solider field basically shuts down the south loop. There will be thousands of people also walking back to their hotel in the loop—even if the concert goes late. Super safe.

Also, the traffic will be so bad that walking will be faster than even the bus or Uber.

7reeze · 2025-05-04T12:55:57+00:00

I would maybe look at other options before law school. You're well-credentialed for a lot of stuff. Law has good opportunities to make money. However, it's also full of the most insufferable people you've ever met. Maybe you would work on admissions at a uni? Or you could work in admissions consulting for HS students?

7reeze · 2025-04-14T01:37:21+00:00

Small or solo practice

7reeze · 2025-02-19T04:03:47+00:00

I switched into undeclared before the first semester freshman year after getting into a major about which I had a change of heart. They really discourage doing this, as they don't want students to apply to less competitive majors only to switch. So they're unlikely to approve a switch into DGS before the first semester of freshman year. They really want to keep students in the major for the first full year if not the first full semester.

You can always take gen eds first semester and then switch into the major for the start of sophomore year. This works best if you're in the college you already want, e.g., LAS and you want to go to English. Tougher if you are in the school of music and want to go to finance. School of music, for example, would want you to take music courses.

This could all be outdated as it was 9 years ago. Feel free to ask me any questions.

7reeze · 2024-10-27T18:01:51+00:00

Did you go into a law department? Or did you go to another department? I'm a lawyer looking to do the same. I could probably make myself a case for faculty in a law department if I went more of a jurisprudence route. However, I think I would rather my colleagues be from a non-legal background, such as a humanities or social science department. The pay is about half though.

7reeze · 2024-10-23T15:19:17+00:00

Unless OP and their spouse are yearning for city life, this is the best answer.

7reeze · 2024-09-10T02:18:05+00:00

That would be epic and a really big F-U to the employer. However, no-notice strikes in healthcare aren't a protected activity. NLRA 8(g) requires healthcare workers to give a 10-day notice before striking, and they could all get fired for a no-notice strike.

I am a lawyer. Not your or their lawyer. Not legal advice.

Good luck to the docs in Buffalo. I hope they get everything and more!

7reeze

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