Well, this is the second time that I’ve written this post. The electricity has gone out in our house approximately 5 times today. I’m surprised my computer hasn’t gotten fried.
For those of you who are keeping up with my blog (the three or four of you that are left), I have accepted a position at BRCC starting in the Spring. It is a step down from Research I and a step up from being unemployed. As you can see, I still suffer the Research I snobbery without the props to do it. OTOH, I can’t help that I’m so jaded about doing research, though. It’s just not in me. And so much of it is dreck. I’m such a hypocrite. There’s a lesson here for me to learn, I am sure. I also hope that there will be opportunity for professional development.
In any case, I’m looking forward to a new audience to master. I think back on all those little kids I taught in August. I will be teaching their parents, now.
From what I understand, the students at BRCC are more enthusiastic than those at LSU, and have less of a sense of entitlement. It should be interesting to see how it goes. The teaching load is a bitch. 5 – 5. I haven’t done that since I was in Women’s Studies at USF. I wonder what I will be teaching and how many preps I will have.
In blogging news, someone turned me on to the site, gullible.info. According to a post on this site, 18 percent of all blog posts start with the word, “So.” I scanned through a few posts, and I learned that I do it too.
From NOW on fetal rights:
In other words, if they can convince the Supreme Court that “times have changed” since Roe was decided and that a fetus should now be recognized as a “person” under the Constitution, then abortion would immediately become an act of murder in every state across the county.
And my deepest regrets, Rosie O’Donnell’s racist Ching Chong Chinese on the View, which I’ve really been liking lately until this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSuZz3gWuE
I really hope she apologizes.
hey, Laura,
Don’t know if I ever told you, but in between graduating from Ohio State and moving to the Twin Cities I taught three sections of composition at Columbus State Community College and it was one of the most satisfying teaching experiences of my life. True, it was disheartening to know that many of my students wouldn’t get through their programs because they weren’t prepared or because their lives presented many obstacles to staying in school. On the other hand, I had a lot of students who were absolutely determined to make it through. I found it so touching that they would stick with me even through the most boring grammar exercises because they knew they needed this basic knowledge. And I thought CSCC students were definitely an more interesting bunch than the baseball cap and sneakers crowd at Ohio State. Overall the campus was way more lefty than Ohio State (admittedly not difficult) and I found that refreshing.
I hope they know how lucky they are to have you, and I hope you’ll tell me more about the place and your new job. Congratulations!
Cris
I am a former student of yours from the Research I institution with many fond memories of your class on feminist theory. I have been teaching part-time at both R1 and a local community college and the students are not even from the same planet. The sense of entitlement from the R1 was completely absent in my CC class, but there were more family issues that kept my CC students out of class yet determined to catch up when they return. I have heard other R1/CC instructors complain about having to “spoon feed” the CC students, but I found the change refreshing and the students more “real”, if there is such a thing.
BRCC is lucky to have you and I wish you the best in your new position.
ME