--If I were a professor, I think I'd totally check my profile on RateMyProfessors obsessively at first. And possibly throughout my career ( Read more... )

I for sure have homework I should be doing now -- like the reading I promised myself I'd finish today, so that I could spend tomorrow beginning work on the 8-10 page essay that's due for my romantics class on May 4th (I know, I know, that sounds like forever away, but this is probably the latest I've ever started thinking about an essay that long ( Read more... )

I want to be a teacher so I can do for others what my best teachers have always done for me -- make me feel respected, intelligent, worthwhile, and loved. I swear that five minutes in office hours with Professor Picciotto (the by-now infamous Milton professor) was enough to make me feel like I'm on the right track in my life -- that I'm where I'm ( Read more... )

It has recently been brought to my attention that GLBT fiction has slowly been stripped of its Amazon.com sales rankings because it has been labeled "adult."

From Dear Author:

What’s going on?For those who don’t know, Amazon has decided to derank and then remove from front page searches books labeled “erotic” and GLBT. For example, books that ( Read more... )

I am strangely busyI mean, okay, I should expect some degree of insanity. I'm taking 18 units worth of classes, co-teaching another 2 units worth. I work an average of 8 hours a week for pay and intern for another 4-6 unpaid. I am in two literature classes, each of which requires a good deal of reading and writing, and I am in two writing workshops ( Read more... )

My creative writing professor has a tendency (one I don't terribly like, though I suppose I only slightly dislike it) to ask students, "Where did this story come from?" As though a) we know where it came from and b) it's something impersonal enough to share with a group of relative strangers ( Read more... )

I've got a lot of disjointed thoughts that I'm trying to manage in the hour before tutoring starts and I start earning money. In some kind of organization, then.

I heard back from the study abroad office, and I'm 99% guaranteed to be attending Queen Mary University of London. I'm incredibly looking forward to going abroad, and incredibly nervous, ( Read more... )

So, instead of eating my dinner or doing any one of the numerous homework assignments that are bound to crush me to a pulp between now and Thursday, I have been accosted by a short story. I am actually rather pleased by this -- I have been waiting for this particular story to make itself work for me ever since reading the Book of Job (yeah, the one ( Read more... )