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By ~LS~ On March 26, 2011 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: What I Did Today, Work Sucks

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My first post of the year…

By ~LS~ On January 22, 2011 · Add Comment · In I have to work? and tagged Tagged With: Work Sucks

…And it’s January 22. I fear this is a sign of how the semester will be. I have over-committed myself to various things at BRCC. Some of what I’m doing is important to me, but it contains elements that are not. Others are important and I enjoy. In either case, I’ve forgotten how to say no and I need to start prioritizing.

Classes are going well so far. This semester I am teaching Introduction to Humanities for the first time ever. I’m excited about it and frustrated because I can’t keep my mind out of the theory clouds and in the community college classroom. I think I’ve put together something accessible, but we can only see how it unfolds.

I’ve been very persuaded by the literature I’ve been reading about students today. Regardless of the problems with categorizing and labeling, I have found the insights that characterize students to be [...]

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10 reasons why Blackboard Learn sucks

By ~LS~ On October 5, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Technology and tagged Tagged With: Educational Technology, Teaching, Work Sucks

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Pre-grading Procrastinatory Thoughts

By ~LS~ On September 29, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Pop Culture, Silliness, Teaching, Work Sucks

1. Procrastinatory is a real word. I looked. But Webster’s online dictionary is now subscription based. WTF?

2. I’ve decided to wave just like Willow — with large smiles and much enthusiasm. I’ve put this decision into practice. It seems to be going well.

3. After many years of trying to explain in simplistic language why we don’t call Asian people “Oriental,” I’ve finally decided just to show a picture of the world “upside down.”

4. Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in the same movie? Way too much hawtness in one movie. However will I stand it?

5. My fifth post today. Obviously I’m feeling chatty.

6. Ben Affleck is a better storyteller than he is an actor. To this day I still don’t understand why Kevin Smith let his monologue in Chasing Amy go on for fifteen minutes. He’s [...]

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On Office Hours and Better Teaching

By ~LS~ On September 29, 2010 · Add Comment · In I have to work?, Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, Pedagogy, Speech, Teaching, Work Sucks

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The hidden cost of graduate school

By ~LS~ On July 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In Academentia, Capitalism, Generations, I have to work?, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Money, Teaching, Work Sucks

I just paid my student loan a couple of days ago, which basically means I hit a button on the loan website and depleted my financial resources for another month. In the moment, I started to reflect on the debilitating costs of graduate school, costs which most people don’t consider even later in their lives after they’ve graduated. Most academics that I know have a deep sense of nostalgia for their days of poverty, where living on ramen, cheap beer, and the company of good friends in the same boat got them through until the next measly TA paycheck. They also have a healthy resentment for how paying student loans back takes money directly from their pockets in the present. This is all at the level of obviousness. But the unacknowledged costs add up to a substantial amount of cash, yet no one ever includes them in any accounting. When [...]

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