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- From: fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields)
- Subject: Re: Carping and Per Diem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.145752.19437@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
- References: <63029@mimsy.umd.edu> <8XVawB1w165w@dorsai.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:57:52 GMT
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- In article <8XVawB1w165w@dorsai.com> idealord@dorsai.com (Jeff Harrington) writes:
- >a professor by the way, not a student... To repeat, I know a lot of
- >people who write dull, complex, grey music but who get off on Beethoven.
- >This is tragic. I'm not saying go write like Beethoven, I'm just saying
- >bang out a piece that gets you off. Not a piece which pleases your
- >mentors.
-
- Or if you prefer, when a mentor can no longer help you work out the ideas
- you want to work out, fire them and get another mentor. You are the consumer;
- the professors are the service-providers. Grades and degrees just confuse the
- matter (I tend to think of them as compressed shorthand versions of letters
- of recommendation, timesavers both for the author and the reader, things which
- can easily be abused).
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