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		dalke on Dec 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Leaving Academia (2013) I think your perception is miscalibrated. The writer did join academia, just not for very long. If I were to get a job at Google, work there for a week, and quit, I think it would just fine to write an essay about "Leaving Google". How long do you think you need to be working at X before you can write that you are leaving X? Or rather, when do you think you actually join academia? Is a 6th year graduate student, pre-defense, still not yet part of academia?

rdc12 on Dec 5, 2014 [–]

And if you left Google after a week and wrote about it, most people would probably dismiss it

dalke on Dec 6, 2014 | [–]

I agree with you, and I see that you agree with me in that it's inappropriate to conclude that "Leaving X" implies that a person was at X 'for some time.'

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