“Academia is like a pie-eating contest where the reward is more pie.”

How have I never heard this phrase before? And what a perfect summary of academia!

#ProfLife

https://www.chronicle.com/article/feeling-anxious-youre-not-the-only-one/

@QuantumDot2

a man comes into cake eating contest and asks: "why so much cake could we have something else?". he left into sunset. not caring to know what contest is next.

@QuantumDot2 Higher Education is about learning AND teaching. And, both are dessert as far as i am concerned.
@QuantumDot2 You're overworked and underpaid, and still you further exploit yourself, because it's for the good of humankind.