First case of plagiarism:

Action: Student copied from web
Reaction: Teacher fails student for the assignment, lowering his grade to less than a B, forcing honors student to have to retake the entire class over ( Read more... )

My interview at Chapel Hill isn't until next Friday, the 21st. That's good actually. Gives me more time to prepare.

[I posted this earlier, but I think I screwed up on the privacy settings as usual ( Read more... )

I just caught three of my honors students plagiarizing their essays for my class!

Fuck fuck fuck fuck! I hate this shit.

Hold on...it's quite a ride.

I landed a phone interview with UNC-Chapel Hill!! I thought it was pretty much over with, but I should haven known better than to think a group of faculty could work that fast. Anyway, I'm leaving tomorrow for Dallas, TX, for my convention, and I'll be doing my phone interview from my hotel room there. I have to bring a lot of print outs about the ( Read more... )

Should have a fun Saturday. Meeting a new couple from Raleigh at our house for some evening fun. We'll be doing the not-so-usual usual swinging stuff. Come on by and join in. ;)

I was accepted for the Fulbright-Hays Summer program in Budapest! I'm a Fulbright Fellow! :)

I have signed a book contract! You will be able to buy my book from amazon.com sometime in the Fall semester!

My best friend came to town from Atlanta. We went to Fourth Friday downtown obviously on Friday, played disc golf on Saturday at Mazerick Park and then played a full game of Talisman that evening, and then on Sunday played two full rounds of disc golf -- at Mazerick Park and Arnette Park. Wow. Lots of disc golf. I'll have to teach him how to play ( Read more... )