You guys: this is simply brilliant. Love ( Read more... )

I wish I could make this kind of shit up. Then they might hire me to write for television. However, this springs not out of my own imagination but out of the sophisticated intellect of one spectacular undergraduate, and forwarded to me by his professor. This is comedy gold for academics. Epic. Spectacular fail ( Read more... )

I didn't think this was that funny, and I am not sure what to make of the fact that my advisor sent this along to our reading group.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7451115/

The movie does make some good points about teaching undergraduates, and also about Harold Bloom.

As I am looking for ways to procrastinate writing papers, and as I have finished my grading in an attempt to procrastinate writing said papers, I want to take a moment to write a more elaborate set of snarky comments thoughtful critiques about the  dimwits maturity-challenged students from this semester.

For a while now, I have been very much ( Read more... )

When I am awake sometimes I hate the monsters I teach. I could provide multiple horror stories from this semester, but I'm just going with one because it pisses me off at this particular moment in time.

Precious is on the football team, which is why he is at school at all. I have had student athletes in my classes before and generally, they are ( Read more... )

Bwah hah hah.

Awesome link of the day. I give you:

Bronte Sister Power Dolls.

The short version: I will be at UCLA this fall ( Read more... )

So today, I woke up with the most pleasant surprise in my email: a potential adviser, whose work I (no cool way to say it) WORSHIP emailed me to tell me that she was on the admissions committee and loved my application. She used the word wonderful to describe my writing sample! She sent me a few links and described a few of her projects that sound ( Read more... )

Well, got my rejection letter from Stanford today. I can't say I am surprised although I must admit I am deeply disappointed. This means I am three notifications away from making a decision. It really won't be an easy one. My old mentors from Davis are emailing me letting me know how excited they are for me to come visit. I feel like there is so ( Read more... )

Romeo and Juliet: The Vow, the Vowel and the Disavowal ( Read more... )