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August 26, 2006

On being a scholar

I've heard several people now describe the shift that comes during graduate study from being a student to being a scholar/teacher/academic. Yesterday at the Fellows Convocation here at SU I heard the one I like the best so far, from Scott Pitnick, Professor of Biology:

... going from someone who reads to someone who is read.

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