RESEARCH-CREATION & SCHOLARSHIP
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chores
This semester's TA assignment has been frustrating beyond all belief. Sometimes I feel like I'm doing all of the important professorial duties outside of the classroom. For instance, Professor decided to have the mid-term later than most other classes. Of course the...
literature review
for one of my classes (the one I haven't complained about), I've been researching information that will probably become a part of my thesis proposal when I write that next spring. It's more difficult than I expected to keep the two projects separate right now - I feel...
communism doesn’t work in the classroom
I've decided to take a Rand-ian stance to the blog project that my professor has got us working on. I'm trying to walk the thin line between being cooperative and maintaining my own original ideas and research. In class last week, Professor told us that he wanted us...
very sad day
Robert Jordan has died. The Wheel of Time is unfinished. Whatever will happen to Rand et. al.?
overheard from a coworker
"I hate all this University Lecture Series stuff. I mean talk about a waste of money. All people do is throw it away." When working in a department that has no connection to the academic side of things, I shouldn't be surprised to hear something like this. [Update:...
media art histories
While perusing Google Scholar, I found this nice site that has full-text papers that were presented at Refresh!, a conference on the history of media art, science, and technology. Looks pretty interesting. Media Art Histories Archive
under the radar
I'm going anonymous...at least for a little while. One of my class projects is going to involve a blog, and I don't necessarily want people that I know to stumble across this yet. My professor asked in class last night if anyone blogged, and I did not fess up. It's...
changes
I found out yesterday that my university has changed their policy on tuition waivers for graduate teaching assistants. Our tuition is now only covered for a portion of the number of credits that we need to take each semester to stay on a 3-year graduation track. My...