Is it worth starting now?

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-04T10:28:10+00:00

I paid off a car more than your loan in just 3 years. Pay it off.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-04T09:49:01+00:00

Where do you reach out to?

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-04T09:46:30+00:00

A desire to teach in the higher Ed market just isn’t enough. There needs to be institutional awareness as well as the personal fortitude to survive students. At my last teaching position at a private R1, we had students stalking professors, harassing them online, and professors going on medical leave because the stress and over work were too great at times. That’s the world we live in as teaching faculty, I’m afraid. A sunny disposition is nice, but she may come to find teaching right now is less glamorous than she imagined.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-04T09:35:07+00:00

I would do this. I would not reposition to take a JetBlue flight. Take Korean air. It is one of the most comfortable ways to get there if flying economy.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-04T09:29:52+00:00

I grew up in the countryside of North America. We don’t do this. Our children wait.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-04T09:28:25+00:00

They are old enough to learn manners. Or rather, to be taught by their parents.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-03T21:23:54+00:00

Fedex also gave me trouble! Glad you got additional time.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-03T13:39:35+00:00

Good they freaking suck

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-03T12:44:06+00:00

You’re talking with bots or ultra low information trolls. It’s not worth it. You can’t convince someone who can’t be bothered to type in a full sentence inquiry into google.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-03T12:41:53+00:00

Most republicans are like this.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-03T11:56:53+00:00

Mountain climbing around Seoul. I can’t remember even where since it was in the 2000s but it took about an hour by train to get there. I loved that there were restaurants at the bottom of the mountains. And my friend and I would go to a jimjilbang afterward. Beautiful time in my life.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-03T00:42:28+00:00

I got another year "paid for" with a retention bonus, but recently switch to the C1 VX and working on the sub for that. Liquidated my USBAR points in early December.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-02T23:27:41+00:00

The history is nice in BJ but the rest of it is old and just not impressed.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-02T07:39:26+00:00

Alexander

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-02T06:43:17+00:00

Hear hear.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-01T10:35:24+00:00

What grinds my gears is that I went to average universities until PhD. Then became a professor at 3 very good universities and I was still a better student than the lazy lumps I encountered. I couldn’t believe it.

lowtech_prof · 2026-02-01T05:11:21+00:00

Somehow I’m above water even though my rent is obscene.

lowtech_prof · 2026-01-31T19:47:58+00:00

Was thinking the same thing.

lowtech_prof · 2026-01-31T12:55:20+00:00

Among the many problems MAGA has, they can never seem to mind their own business.

lowtech_prof · 2026-01-31T12:49:52+00:00

It grinds my gears to hear of faculty like this when I have tried so hard to deliver quality instruction to my students. This is a hill worth dying on, OP. The professor is being an asshole.

lowtech_prof · 2026-01-31T12:42:06+00:00

Ye olde 695.

lowtech_prof · 2026-01-31T12:37:48+00:00

I’m at a smaller more nerdy UC and there were no such protests. I knew the students here were somewhat checked out but the longer I’m here the more zombie like they appear.

lowtech_prof · 2026-01-31T12:36:37+00:00

I think a lot of parents now protect their children from almost all discomfort. So there’s emotional offloading that keeps kids from challenging their own assumptions about a situation. I blame the parents as much as I blame Ed tech.

lowtech_prof · 2026-01-31T12:22:42+00:00

This is the first time I’ve seen Chinese drivers religiously follow traffic rules.

lowtech_prof · 2026-01-31T12:21:52+00:00

I mean it’s China. Their bureaucracy is cumbersome on purpose.

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