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February 29, 2012

Withdrawal symptoms

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You know how I whine about being in hell, and how I said I'm not on facebook, in my usual slightly snotty, somewhat superior tone? Well,...
February 25, 2012

I surrender

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If you are an educator no doubt you have had to endure many hours of in-service training. We had ours yesterday. On a day already crowded wi...
February 21, 2012

Obama asks higher education, "What are we getting for our money?"

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The aggressive push of the Obama Administration to make higher education accessible, affordable, and effective is stoking a heated debate. I...
February 18, 2012

My life is a farce

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I'm back in dissertation hell. I'm four weeks into my first dissertation course, waiting for my Chair to give me feedback on my conc...
February 16, 2012

I am the anti-christ of marketing

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You can define marketing as "a practice employing methods of communication to persuade people to do, think, feel, or believe something....
February 14, 2012

Relationships are highly overrated

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It's Valentine's Day. I read some stories today about how being in a relationship can help you live longer, improve the quality of y...
February 12, 2012

What happens next?

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I'm trapped in dissertation limbo, waiting for my Chair to respond to my submission. While I'm waiting, my constant question is ...
February 11, 2012

That pesky sense of entitlement

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A distressing number of my students seem to think they are exempt from the rules. The conversation goes like this: Student: I deserve ...
February 10, 2012

My own personal seven dwarves

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Despite my new lightbox, I started my day feeling somewhat grouchy and grumpy and realized I was once again in the company of my dwarves. I ...
February 07, 2012

Perplexed and confused as usual by my students

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I'm still in dissertation purgatory, waiting for my Chair to respond with feedback to my concept paper. Even a response to my email aski...
February 05, 2012

The proud, the many, the chronically malcontented bloggers

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One day last week while I was admiring how lovely my blog looks, I noticed the link at the top of the window that says <<Next Blog>...
February 03, 2012

Back in dissertation hell

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I knew this would happen. I'm two weeks into my first dissertation course, and already getting feedback from my Chair is like pulling te...
January 30, 2012

In the absence of information, what do we do? Make it up!

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In the absence of information, what do employees do? Speculate! Here's the latest: Rumor has it that the for-profit college I teach fo...
January 28, 2012

After 50, you can do whatever you want

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This morning at breakfast, just for the hell of it, I plotted the relationship between age and the amount of stuff you can get away with on ...
January 27, 2012

Life or something like it

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Sometimes I wish this life was done. Over. Finis. I'm not quite ready to be dead, but being alive is sometimes so excruciating. I have...
January 23, 2012

Math anxiety and the wreckage of the future

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Today is the first day of my first official dissertation "course," the 12-week period in which I am expected to revise my concep...
January 22, 2012

Clearing the decks

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In preparation for the next adventure in Dissertation Hell , I started going through some of my old journals, looking for drawings I could s...
January 21, 2012

Am I the only person not on Facebook?

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The career college where I teach recently launched a Facebook page. This in spite of the fact that the Facebook website is blocked from the ...
January 20, 2012

Perplexed and dumbfounded by my students

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For-profit career college education is hell, no doubt about it. But school is school, and if you want to get the most out of the experienc...
January 18, 2012

Still malcontented

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Wow. I don't believe it. Two days in a row. Does this mean I qualify as a writer? Hmmm. I doubt it. A writer is someone who publishes ...