to purposely seek rejection,
as I am now,
must be the mark
of positively,
incorrigible,
mental illness,
worse even
than asking out
the most popular
girl in school.
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the sieve and the sand 
if it makes you feel any better – i had a prof in college who tried to get one of his books published. he sent it to something like 130 publishers before it was accepted… he looked it up and it was a world record… so really getting published is just a numbers game…
thats how i understand it anyhoo
When do you start wondering if your ideas just aren’t really very good/should your prof have started wondering that? Or is that just the system? All reasons why I do not want to be an academic.
and all reasons why I want TO be an academic…
his ideas were downright terrible… and then he would try to sell his books to students… who knew that if a book was rejected that many times it wasn’t worth reading.
but that said… we blog and we know our content is probably unreadable…
Which just goes to show who our true audience is, ourselves. And maybe the same is true of academics. I know that I sent in the paper that I want to get published because I want to put it on my resume and not because I want to advance knowledge, though I do like the idea that future students could be citing my work.
What was your professor’s book about? Did you ever read it and was it really horrible?
i looked at the first page… it was something like postmodern thought and its application to ant mating habits or something equally sounding interesting but really not.
That does sound like a good peg to base one’s career off of. Maybe being an academic isn’t such a bad idea.