Now I am typing on an unsecured wireless network inside my house. I do not know how to secure it or why it is working. Earlier today I bought a wireless router. Its installation and configuration wizard did not permit me to install and configure it. I phoned technical support in India who said the … More Wireless
Did students use to say, “I need you to pass me because I am graduating next semester and do not have space in my schedule to repeat this course?” [Emphasis added] Axé.
I would of course prefer never to think about beginning foreign languages at all, but I must. These are my questions today. How many semesters is your basic language sequence? Why? How many days a week does it meet? Why? What book do you use? Why? After the basic sequence is over, do you have … More Academic Mondays: Beginning to Intermediate FL
Do you like to evaluate things? I really do not like evaluative activity to be required of me by commercial entities. I find invasive and coercive the calls one gets from supervisors at companies one has frequented in which one is asked to rate the courtesy level of one’s technician. If I had a complaint … More On Product and Service Evaluations as Interpellations to Commercialism
In your department, do instructors (with MAs) have a vote that weighs as much as that of professorial faculty (with PhDs and graduate faculty status)? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this for the program? I am thinking of votes on issues such as curriculum. In one of my departments instructors vote on such … More Academic Mondays: On Governance. Open Thread.
What not to do: – Think about it – Talk to vicarious drama kings and queens who would like to help you think about it – Take up nervous habits – Open thread! Alternatives, if you are nervous and must do something: – Think, in a positive way, about alternative careers – Think, in a … More Academic Mondays: Things To Do While Waiting For Your Tenure Decision: Open Thread
Why, a reader asks, are students and faculty alike expected to work so much? Ze says: What strikes me as really weird is how incredibly much work everyone is expected to do. Students, faculty, everyone. We’re all so busy that we collapse into puddles of stress at the end of the semester and every single … More Academic Mondays: On Overwork
What academic presses that you did not think required subventions, do in fact require them? My answer so far: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures — which I never thought of as a kind of Peter Lang. How far along the subvention road should we consider books to be “vanity” publications? Or should we stop being … More Academic Mondays: A Query
I learned to write with footnotes and I like footnotes. The format of the book for which I am currently writing a piece allows footnotes. Writing along, I realize the extent to which my struggles with writing have to do with not being permitted footnotes. If you must discuss everything in the body of your … More Academic Mondays: On Footnotes
I am now over my Brazilian domestic crisis, which was related to my Louisiana domestic crisis. Both crises were very upsetting because they impinged upon my work, a fact about which I am quite embarrassed. I will have trouble with my work as long as I allow myself to be mistreated in general, and that … More In Which I Am Da Whiteman, Claiming My Ground / A Woman, Trying to “Communicate” / A Weakling / A Victim of Emotional Abuse / An Emotional Worker / Or.
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