Category Archives: EDUCATION

I’m sitting here, facing 25 pages of papers for Western Civ, and probably another 15 – 20 for Creative Writing, and while of course I’ll do it, the feeling is that I want to stop having to do it. I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s just starting to dawn on me that I’m graduating next month and I really need to get my rear end going on deciding what I’m doing for the Fall semester.  It’s probably already a bit late to register for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

See now, here’s where I am at least satisfied that what is being taught in our History class is getting through to some of the students.  You teach about revolutions and pretty soon they catch on and implement it to  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Or am I just old and cranky?  I’ve calmed down in the last half hour, but I still cannot for the life of me understand why someone would undertake getting the education to enable themselves to teach at a college … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The seminar presentation was very good.  The class that picked up from there is not something I really should talk about until I settle down.  Let’s just say, I was about to walk out when the instructor suggested we call … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A good class tonight in Western Civ.  (Of course aceing my exam helped!)  But after working last week on Voltaire’s Candide, and looking into the purpose of man, his nature–good or evil, and whether it can be overcome by free … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Formal essays naturally do call for footnotes and bibliography.  Aside from having three or four books open at a time while writing an essay, and after the tedious research and evidenced arguments have been planned and written, the worst part … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Maybe it’s just one of my bad days, or weeks, or months, but I’m about ready to give it up.  Classwork sucks. Continue reading →

Okay, so it finally dawned on me that if I want to fit in, seem less old and nerdy, I have got to stop asking "Where’s your jacket?" when we’re outside on a smoking break. Continue reading →

No class tonight, because of snow.  I only have night courses this semester, and was happy that for once I didn’t need to worry about either driving in snow, or showing up with the campus closed.  Especially hairy last semester … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My own touching that of centuries before in monophonetic Gregorian Chant.  Hearing once again the unearthly tones that make me think of whale song, and something more.  Further back in memory, then it stops in space of time.  My eyes … Continue reading → Continue reading →

What makes a three-hour history class even longer:  Two students vying for who can ask more questions that are unnecessary, had they read the assigned text.  Another who wants to know "why" a man long dead made a choice that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s odd, how some things that we’ve learned stick in our heads forever.  Or maybe it is just the age at which we learn.  I still can sing a song in Polish that we learned in kindergarten for a recital, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So all this time I thought I came from Mesapotamia, or maybe Ancient Greece, with a few immemorable stops here and there, and one lifetime spent in the American West.  But tonight I found a few missing centuries of my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The end of the journey is in sight–or at least the third leg of it.    Finally got in under the wire to file for graduation in May.  Braved the cold this morning to run around campus flinging forms, money … Continue reading → Continue reading →