Boden wrote:
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Agreed, but things seem a bit looser now than in the "old days."

Omygosh, yes. "Due quota" now is almost non-existent it seems and the
level of minutiae one used to have to follow w/ the mats and all now is
automagically taken care of by software templates in the word processor
of choice...there's something to be said for that, but there's something
missing in not having to go thru the process, too, imo.

UVA doesn't even require the mandatory hours in attendance in the grad
student office any longer I hear. What _IS_ this world coming to???

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