Somehow, I have not come across "AWFL" before. Thanks for sharing that.
It wasn;t so bad for graduate students with newborns either. I didn't need to leave my house often anyway and we were already super protective about germ exposure.
this territory is moderated
You were finishing a dissertation and caring for a newborn ?
If you have a newborn, you get a pass, justifiably
Most graduate students don’t get a pass because they are ruining the country with bogus degrees and research
Physicists and some economists get a pass
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I'd say they're (we're?) ruining the country with bogus influence. The degrees wouldn't matter if people paid less attention to us, as they should.
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