My seminar prof gets major nerd points for publicly wishing William Blake a happy 250th birthday.

Also, Jane Austen is surprisingly dirty. Just read the "Into the Woods"-esque scene in "Mansfield Park."

Some delightful overanalysis from one of my professors ( Read more... )

Also--although my Russian History prof is one of the driest and most awkward men on the face of the planet, he gets MAJOR hilarity points for working the song "Ra Ra Rasputin" into lecture yesterday.

Have a listen:
http://cannibalsall.com/rasputin_deutsch.mp3

I learned how to knit hats yesterday! I currently have 2/3 of a hat!

So, today in my 18th-Century Lit seminar, I accidentally managed to set off an hour-long discussion on haggis* as A.) a metaphor for Scottish nationalism, B.) a metaphor for the grossness of urbanization, and C.) a metaphor for British colonialism and racism. This sort of thing is why English is regarded as a bullshit major ( Read more... )

I never thought I'd have to say this, but there is too much damn wife-swapping among the faculty of this college. It's kind of icky...

If I can pull $1,000 out of somewhere in the next couple of months, I might be going to Iceland for Spring Break!!! Now, where to raise that kind of money...

I have many gripes with Grinnell, but one thing I continue to appreciate is its morbid intellectual humor. For example: the campus has been inundated with groups like "Students for Hillary," "Students for Obama," "Students for Edwards," etc ( Read more... )

When my friends Elizabeth and Sara and I drove to the grocery store to baking supplies this evening, we ran into my sketchy-ass, 25-year-old Eastern European German-Language lab guy buying booze for no fewer than five 17/18-year-old girls, at least two of whom he is known to be sleeping with. Ick...the sexual culture of colleges, especially ( Read more... )

After a long, early-morning talk with my faculty advisor this morning, I think I have something resembling a life plan for the next couple of years ( Read more... )