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sometimes homework is amusing
Me: "Casey! Listen to this papal decree in the Dictatus Papae, 'the Roman Church has never erred, nor ever, by the witness of Scripture, shall err to all eternity.' oh my god!"
Casey: "... All I heard was Dick and Popeye."
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My advisor is humorous.
When asking my advisor about whether lacking an extensive knowledge about the Crusades would be a problem for me when beginning the Crusades Seminar class in the Spring, he responded something to the effect of, "Why should it? It certainly has never been a problem for any of the Crusade historians!"
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For the first time ever, STUDENT-ISMS!
So yesterday I spent 12 hours working on grading ALL my midterms. They're done. But MAN was I entertained along the way at some of the clever, hilarious, or just plain bonehead things some students wrote. Let's take a little hilarious sample shall we?
Quotes from an essay about the history of early Hebrew history from ritual polytheism to ( Read more... ) -
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Ahhh weekend ( Read more... ) -
wonderful weekend of family
The weekend was amazing, as I knew it would be. I regret that I have so little time left for my paper, but I do not regret that I enjoyed myself all weekend and spent such great quality time with my extended family. This summer has been full of weekends and events and time with Casey and friends that I don't regret, even though they've taken me ( Read more... ) -
summer?
I feel like this is what my professors expect from me over summer vacation, and they're going to be sorely disappointed. At least I worked on my Latin translation project with Robert this morning, and I have mostly been keeping up with my readings for Damien's class (even if I still have NO idea what my research project should be on for that class ( Read more... ) -
"to beautiful women in history!"
Oh my god do I already leave for Colorado this coming Friday? Sweet ( Read more... ) -
"it is better to be feared than loved," lest your subjects go to hell.
I just want to include here a section from my paper, because I find the "get out of jail free card" that Gregory the Great gives to medieval rulers too hilarious not to share with you ( Read more... )
