I'm about to graduate.

It's been pouring for the last few hours. Man, I hope a student marshal towels off my chair for me.

I just submitted my last paper ever for the University of Chicago. My schoolwork is now complete.

I abhor misspelling as much as the next person, so I think that spellcheckers are a brilliant and useful invention. So what's wrong with letting students use them? Seriously, how often are they going to find themselves writing in a situation with no spellchecker available ( Read more... )

The Greek word of the day is ameibo.

The English word of the day is amoeba.

Quoted from PhD comicsTo PhD, or not to PhD...that is the question ( Read more... )

The Greek word of the day is porphureos.

The molecule of the day is ( porphyrin )

And the Greek word of the day is to kudos.

And the English word of the day is also kudos. (Be sure to look under "etymology".)

(And hurrah for parataxis.)

One more word on the Missbrenner acquittal.

From the renowned Professor JZ Smith:

"Now, there are some scholars who don't put much stock in etymology, which, incidentally, comes from the Greek word for 'truth'..."

A request to the university:

It has now been more than sixty years since the end of the Second World War, and even longer since the swastika has acquired its current terrible connotation. Can you please replace the tiles of the stairway in Social Sciences?