SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the losing-tenure-is-like-being-voted-off-the-island dept.
"What if the Kardashians were physicists?" asks César Hidalgo, an associate professor at MIT and director of the Collective Learning group at the MIT Media Lab.
Fortunately they're not, but that odd-sounding blend might be the best way to imagine Hidalgo's new project: a video series called "In My Shoes" that documents his professional life as a researcher and his personal life as a husband and father of a young daughter.
The final product—eight episodes ranging in length from 10 to 20 minutes—can be viewed at https://www.inmyshoes.info.
"The goal of the series is to help show younger people considering an academic career what the day-to-day of the life of a scholar is like," he said. "Personally, I think that this would have been very useful to me 20 years ago, when I was considering an academic career but had no role models in Chile."
Hidalgo self-recorded his life over the course of three months in 2016. During that time, he traveled extensively—from Boston to Washington, D.C.; Saudi Arabia; Switzerland; Portland; Monterrey; and Paris.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @10:48PM
If he gets divorced, I want a season 2.
(Score: 4, Touché) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday March 28 2017, @10:55PM (5 children)
personal life as a husband and father of a young daughter.
That sentence is crying out for a comma, otherwise it's a whole different kind of show and really shouldn't be on TV.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 28 2017, @10:59PM
I dunno, sounds like Big Love to me :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:01PM
Fortunately they're not, but that odd-sounding blend might be the best way to imagine Hidalgo's new project: a video series called "In My Shoes" that documents his professional life as a researcher, and his personal life as a husband and father of a young daughter.
Much better!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28 2017, @11:26PM (1 child)
Oh god, not the Oxford comma!
Fortunately, this is not an Oxford comma situation. That sentence needs an additional article.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:44AM
"...and as father..." would do.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday March 29 2017, @11:51AM
This is why meatbags should speak using a sane language. Lisp for the serious stuff and Smalltalk for, well, smalltalk.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by goodie on Wednesday March 29 2017, @02:26AM (1 child)
It's all good and well to sell the dream and I encourage anyone interested to look into and pursue and academic career. But somebody like Hidalgo is literally part of the 1% that makes it while the other 99% don't and possible suffer from a number of health conditions ranging from common proscratination to severe clinical depression. I haven't watched it but I sure hope he discusses that too. Anyway my point is that his life is not one of the typical scholar, it's that of an extremely successful (and deserving) scholar at a prestigious school with very good financial resources.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:14AM
How about a STEM student, graduating already thousands of dollars in debt, trying to interview for jobs to compete with H1-B Visa workers?
I consider myself highly qualified, but I did not succeed in re-employment after being terminated at 50. Since then, I have tried my best to keep other kids from experiencing the same kind of frustration I have, and have tried to steer them into something more employable... like if they like electronics, I try to steer them into understanding and being able to fix automotive electronics. Something you can do for individual people.
Its been my experience that there is a severe glut of very highly trained people applying for corporate jobs, which has resulted in a real race to the bottom. It was also my observation the corporate types were not looking for technical types anyway... they seemed far more interested in the leadership types. The most frustrating work I have ever done in my career was to be subordinate to someone who had no idea of what I do, and evaluates me on how well I kiss-ass.
I can tell you one thing about every good technical person I have ever known - they are like wild horses: raging with enthusiasm and energy. If management succeeds in breaking them to be plow-horses, they lose that inner drive and desire, and make up for it with alcohol and drugs.
Anyone who has ever started a company is the same way. Once they are made subordinate to someone they have no respect for, drive and enthusiasm quickly evaporate.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:10AM (2 children)
Waking up.
Palpating wife.
Receiving electromagnetic spectrum of newly showered young daughter.
Calculating the probability of being hospitalized from the current breakfast of toxins and GMO, and actually being capable to do it in the head.
Being locked into a car queue and wondering why Musk haven't fixed personal rapid transit (PRT), like yesterday.
Locating where all young.. students.. non-male.. with insufficient and chronic textile deficiency are.
Email.. more email.
Filing in papers to get feature funds that will finance more paper filing to get funds.
Imitate online lectures to students imitate learning.
Rush to the cellar putting out a fire in the dope production.
Talking shit and eating shit while hearing the same from others.
Drive home before the zoombies come out and the IoT pwn0d door lock shuts down.
Now I demand one Oscar and two Pulitzers!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:52AM
lewd!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:17AM
Ok... I award you the Pullet-Surprise!
( handing over one rubber chicken ... )