The way I make grades is, I first figure out what grade the student would get in Berkeley in the late 1970s. Then I go half a grade up if it is an upper division course, and a whole grade up if it is lower division, or if I feel I have been prevented from … More Grades
Axé.
That is what the language requirement students complain of in my classes: I refuse to teach. It is true that if not given a “smart” classroom I no longer attempt to compensate for this, even with a CD player, and it is true that I do not make handouts to substitute for the textbook, or … More On “refusing to teach”
…said this: I don’t want to get to the point where coping takes up so much of my energy that I won’t be able to leave! I am glad someone else recognizes how much energy coping takes. Axé.
Axé.
I am glad I am staying home all break because I have so much to do. The reason I stayed up all night in the office last Friday was to inhabit it. People convinced me to stay in academia without understanding, although I explained patiently, that I had left in spirit long ago. They convinced … More Inhabit
I will finish grading, everything in a row, and then I will download Scrivener to two different systems and learn it. I will organize all of my files. I will do this by graduation. I will attempt to resolve the wireless problem I have in Linux. If I cannot, I will consider what to do. … More Scrivener
An interesting review of developmentalism and dependency theory. Students do not get enough research training and what I now do in these hybrid senior/graduate courses is precisely at the level of what I did in Comparative Literature 1A, 1B, and 40, the freshman and sophomore courses I taught as a graduate student. Marc Bosquet is … More Light reading for while students take finals
César Vallejo’s 120th birthday was this year. Above is his Google Doodle. Here is a Chaucerian grading scale and here is one based on Beckett. I will have to create one out of Vallejo quotations. A Mi metro está midiendo ya dos metros mis husesos concuerdan en género y en número y el verbo encarnado … More Grading scales by poets
1. Moved out at 16, worked full time the last two years of high school, living in an apartment with roommates. Does not feel $30,000 per annum for a hard job is bad pay. 2. Working as a stocker at Office Depot, which he calls “a place of blood, sweat and cigarettes.” Invents and executes … More Students of iron
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