And perhaps Larry decided that being a professor looks pretty attractive.
But as a former university professor myself, I can say that in the years prior to this one, at least, being a professor was not the sinecure that Adams sketches in her piece, one of lazy summers, a class taught here and there, civil and collegial co-workers, and all that.
And people have defined that to mean either being a judge or being a law professor.
Like many Chinese students in the U.S., Ms. Lu disliked writing essays and got flustered after being scolded by a professor for reasons she didn't understand.
Or students can set up a page without a professor being involved.
In addition to being a concerned son, the professor is an expert in patient safety.
So compared to being, say, a Harvard professor, it's a job where you lose a lot of autonomy and you get a lot of stress in your life.
And it is at this point that perhaps Professor Sachs is being a little more heart and soul and a little less intellect than he should be.
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Cronin went from being a little-known author and English professor to overnight millionaire.
Being in a room with an openly lesbian professor and knowing that I was valued, rather than vilified, for the ways in which I didn't fit in was a soothing antidote to all those adolescent years of self-loathing and doubt.
It was almost like being back in Harvard, but now he was a professor, dispensing erudition, occasionally raising a chuckle from an attentive audience.
"I've watched the Bronx burn and left for abandoned and now being slowly rebuilt, " said Mark Naison, a professor of African-American studies and history at Fordham University.
Catching a distant glimpse of a star professor is not the same as being taught by him.
"Nowadays, peppering our speech with nonstandard English is being a regular Joe, " says Jason Riggle, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
Even Robert Kaplan (see article), a Harvard Business School professor sometimes credited with being its founding father, has admitted that it stagnated in the 1990s.
For those that think it is easy for a Harvard Professor to make such pronouncements from an ivy tower, the book explains that Christensen became a professor after a prior career that included being fired from a company he helped to found.
"He knows he's being tested, " University of Michigan Professor Gerald Meyers, a former chairman of American Motors Corp, said of Fields.
As Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate and Columbia professor, puts it, being too big to fail doesn't mean being too big to be reorganised.
Professor Dawkins is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, as well as being the author of The God Delusion, and Sir David is a professor at Princeton University in the United States.
And for all the statistics about the number of people bullied each year or perhaps news reports about elderly being targeted, people tend to respond more -- and more viscerally -- to a person being attacked and suffering with their own eyes, the professor states.
Professor Leach said a number of image processing approaches were being tested, but there were often problem replicating results in other centres because of differences in equipment.
"A horrible, stupid blunder" is how a University of Baltimore law professor described it, and he was being charitable.
They hated that their mother was often gone, juggling a couple low-paying part-time jobs, including being an adjunct professor.
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Professor SAPOLSKY: I spend most of my time by being at a university, hanging out with very manic, excited 18-year-olds.
In addition to being a teacher, tutoring students hoping to enter the conservatory, she was a professor employed by the conservatory.
Being hairless has become identified with the idealization of youthfulness, explains Professor Susan A. Basow, head of the psychology department at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.
In 2011, he was appointed as a honorary professor at Swansea University, before working in Melbourne after being awarded the Rowan Nick's fellowship fellowship by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
"A large number of patients are being treated uselessly, " says Fernando Martinez, professor of pediatrics at the University of Arizona.
Although the process is being tested on a small-scale right now, project lead and University of Warwick engineering professor Jan Baeyens is thinking big.
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