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Failure vs. Amazingness

Posted on August 22, 2012 by cmagnus
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I haven’t blogged for a while because I realized that I’d been doing a lot of explaining why I was leaving academia and not so much engaging in my compositional process. Today, I’d like to figure out why.

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Mentoring isn’t Somebody Else’s Problem

Posted on August 3, 2012 by cmagnus
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As part of my series on why I’m no longer in academia: mentoring is important. If are in the position to mentor and you don’t do it, you suck.

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Mentoring and Networking

Posted on August 1, 2012 by cmagnus
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As part of my series on why I’m no longer in academia: mentoring is important. Mentoring includes helping your students network. It doesn’t matter how amazing your students are; if you act like you’ve never met them at a conference, people will think you don’t think highly of them.

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