Gah, evil facebook posted my comment before I Was finished!
Confession time--I was originally going to write about LOTR B/C Gandalf as academic advisor immediately came to mind but there were more obvious profesor sterotypes to be found with Star Wars and so Gandalf morphed into Obi Wan.
Yoda (yeah, let's take it past A new Hope)--obviously that rock star professor emeritus who revolutionized the field, writes books that make it onto the NY Times non-fiction bestseller list and is a fequent interviewee on NPR. If only you were born twenty years earlier when you could have taken classes with him (would he have been your adviser? best not to dwell on impossibIlities)! As it is, you have to make do with his occasional campus-wide guest lectures and living vicariously through the nostalgic "department heyday" stories swapped by the senior faculty at Han's parties.
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Date: 2012-04-13 03:09 am (UTC)Confession time--I was originally going to write about LOTR B/C Gandalf as academic advisor immediately came to mind but there were more obvious profesor sterotypes to be found with Star Wars and so Gandalf morphed into Obi Wan.
Yoda (yeah, let's take it past A new Hope)--obviously that rock star professor emeritus who revolutionized the field, writes books that make it onto the NY Times non-fiction bestseller list and is a fequent interviewee on NPR. If only you were born twenty years earlier when you could have taken classes with him (would he have been your adviser? best not to dwell on impossibIlities)! As it is, you have to make do with his occasional campus-wide guest lectures and living vicariously through the nostalgic "department heyday" stories swapped by the senior faculty at Han's parties.