Ambiguously Gendered Child of "What is the Hivemind?"

[Rystil Arden]

Sounds cool ! How does this work, though? How do you become a temporary faculty member at a university? I really don't have any idea how this works, as I'm from Europe .

Umm...lesse...First you have to understand that the state of Maryland is very poor right now, so poor that the new governor is trying to allow legalised gambling, although the legislature will never allow it...Anyway, I went there to do research in AI over the summer instead of at MIT, as my gaming group is all down there, so we only get in good games during the summer. So, they figured out that they could pay me less if I was a faculty member, and they didn't have to pay me as a student researcher since I wasn't a student there. So I became a faculty researcher. Not something that happens every day, I guess, so its not some arcane American custom that they've been hiding from you

 

[Turjan]

Umm...lesse...First you have to understand that the state of Maryland is very poor right now, so poor that the new governor is trying to allow legalised gambling, although the legislature will never allow it...Anyway, I went there to do research in AI over the summer instead of at MIT, as my gaming group is all down there, so we only get in good games during the summer. So, they figured out that they could pay me less if I was a faculty member, and they didn't have to pay me as a student researcher since I wasn't a student there. So I became a faculty researcher. Not something that happens every day, I guess, so its not some arcane American custom that they've been hiding from you

Hehe, I can actually understand that . Here, the situation is somewhat similar. Because of some silly regulations, normal graduate students and especially members of the university's 'special program' got much more expensive than post docs. Let's see how many grad students they will have two years from now .

 

[Rystil Arden]

Hehe, I can actually understand that . Here, the situation is somewhat similar. Because of some silly regulations, normal graduate students and especially members of the university's 'special program' got much more expensive than post docs. Let's see how many grad students they will have two years from now .

Turjan
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Congratulations!

 

[Turjan]

Congratulations!

Oh, thanks . Took me a few years more than you .

 

[Rystil Arden]

Oh, thanks . Took me a few years more than you .

Yeah, stupid youngsters like me, we're always getting in the way of the "real" ENWorlders . I guess I'm just a Threadposting Prodigy? If I had that feat, then according to that poll they always link to on the Wizards site, I'd have enough Int to get two bonus first level posts per day!

 

[Turjan]

Yeah, stupid youngsters like me, we're always getting in the way of the "real" ENWorlders .

Well, 'real ENWorlders' are those that show presence. In this sense, you are more of a 'real ENWorlder' than I am .

 

[Rystil Arden]

Well, 'real ENWorlders' are those that show presence. In this sense, you are more of a 'real ENWorlder' than I am .

I'm too young to be taken seriously here

 

[Turjan]

I'm too young to be taken seriously here

Okay, maybe, we both don't belong to the 'in club' .

 

[Rystil Arden]

Okay, maybe, we both don't belong to the 'in club' .

Don't worry, we're we're Hiveminders! That's better than being in the 'in club'

 

[Darkness]

It's not about how big it is, it's about how you use it.

Post count, that is. I've seen people get well-known in less than 1,500 posts. 'course, many of them managed it by constantly doing dumb or offensive stuff*, but...

(*Which I wouldn't recommend, as it's damn hard to live down later on, in addition to the obvious problems.)