Let’s face it: universities are tough on everyone. While undergraduates work up a sweat trying to pass their requisite gauntlet of courses, their professors are busy grading papers, preparing lectures, and submitting meaty articles to journals. As the year rolls on, the stress builds, the face-wrinkles show, and the count-down to summer slows to an [...]
the Key and Its Signature
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Tag Archives: Academia
Pick On Someone Your Own Size
Like most things on my mind these days, I must begin this entry in an academic way. A professor—who I will allow to remain anonymous—expressed his concern over Stanley Cavell’s early written works in the Winter of `08. He explained that Cavell was picking on the more insignificant critics of his work, and that he [...]