Haunting poem. Leddy on academic entitlement. Why I don’t use “lol” in emails. Example 2 is the killer. Brooks on the benevolent power of institutional thinking. Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? Wonder no more with the Ground Zero Calculator. [via Librarian of Fortune]
Tagged academia, poetryMy previous post Fred Stutzman and Facebook reminded me of an essay from the May/August 2000 issue of North American Review. The essay I tore out and kept in my “Essays” folder lo these many years was by the writer Norman Lavers, now retired from teaching English and enthusiastically maintaining a site on The Robber [...]
Tagged blessay, curmudgeons, Email, the simple lifeImage by Getty Images via Daylife Fred Stutzman is a PhD student at SILS and the creator of numerous good things, among them ClaimID and the Mac-based Freedom (which I used today to good effect). He has a blog, Unit Structures, and tends to post announcements of upcoming events or good ‘n’ chewy postings related [...]
Tagged facebookPenelope Trunk trots out one of her regularly visited themes: why grad school is a bad idea. It rankled me a bit but I do have to remember that she’s talking to twenty-somethings and I’m a forty-odder. Her advice would be right-on to my 23-year-old self: I had very little direction, a graduate degree would [...]
Tagged DoIReallyWantaPhd?, penelope trunkCover of 7 Up Since our 780 Research Methods class doesn’t have a Blackboard site for the class, I’ll post my various links and thoughts to the blog, tagged with “780.” I wonder if Michael Apted’s wonderful Up series of documentary interviews would be an example of a kinda sorta longitudinal study or panel study? [...]
Tagged 780, Seth Roberts