Taught. Published. Ran.
Okay, so I wasn’t really the worst professor ever. I published research, taught sober and never let a student blow me for a grade. Still, while professoring at a prestigious university it became clear to me that looking cute, liking Judd Apatow movies, and having any sort of social life were incompatible with being a "real" professor. So I left.
I don't miss the job, but it's still tough to know what people think of education: teachers are lazy, learning can only happen in an Ivory Tower, and smart is the same as "boring and serious all the time". And yet they don't realize that if you can run a classroom, you can run a corporation.
Like any good American, I started authoring a tell-all and have taken to the internet, recording the hijinks of a former professor attempting to navigate the exciting (and confusing) world of business and technology with the most powerful form of communication there is: humor.
Nope, you're still not allowed to be smart and pretty and it's a real bummer.
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