Piercing the Academic Veil: Sharing What Prospective Students and Faculty Need to Know About the Inner Workings of Academia
Many of you will remember the series on the Fox network entitled, "Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed." If you don't, it basically featured a masked professional magician who revealed how some of the most common magic acts (e.g., sawing a lady in two) were actually done. Although it was interesting for me to learn this, it also removed some of the luster from the world of magic. In fact, I almost wished that I hadn't watch it because, now, whenever I see a magic trick, I am much less impressed. So, let this serve as a warning for you - in this series of articles, I will be piercing the academic veil: sharing what prospective students and faculty need to know about the inner workings of academia.