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If It's Tuesday, I Must Be Baffled By How Quickly I Had to Get Into It This Semester. 27 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
First day of the semester. 19 pleasant looking freshmen. I do about three minutes of overview about the class and a young man in the front row says out loud, without raising his hand, "Why don't you ...
Delayed Reaction to Sunday Night Flakemail 27 Aug 2013 | 08:49 am
Fellow CMrs, I’ve been bad. Just how bad, I wonder. With the first homework set due Monday afternoon, Sunday at 10:00 PM I got the usual flakemail: waaah, waaah, problem 48 isn't like anything we did...
A Tale of Two Classes (Short Version) 27 Aug 2013 | 07:19 am
And here it is again, like every semester. The phenomenon that is, to me, the biggest mystery of higher education. It's not the matter of why the student lounge has better vending machines than the fa...
Real Goddamned Mail. Math Edition. 27 Aug 2013 | 04:12 am
Email 1: I know you're all humanists and mostly concerned with students' feelings, but the recent graphic for a linked article (won't you give up those, BTW), contains a simple math error. 86+24=110....
"Dear Doctora Colleague." From Dr. Amelia. 26 Aug 2013 | 10:46 pm
Thank you so much for taking the time to write to me on behalf of Johnny Flake. How nice that Johnny felt comfortable coming to you with his concerns about my class. I think it is probably because he ...
It's Annie in Akron's First Day. 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Today's my first day. I taught as a TA in grad school. I even taught at a high school very briefly. I understand what standing in front of a room is. I'm not afraid I don't know anything. I'm not wo...
The Future's So Bright.... 25 Aug 2013 | 09:33 pm
26% are prepared? Well I guess I'm in the other 84%. Twenty-six percent of high-school graduates who took the ACT in 2013 met all four of its college-readiness benchmarks, according to a report rel....
An Honest To Goodness Spiritually-Demanding Sunday Thirsty: What Are Your New Year's Resolutions? 25 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
For many of us, this is another New Year, met not with fireworks and champagne, but gin and meetings and half-written syllabi. So, in the spirit of this somewhat dismal (and yet, kind of exciting, e...
CM Flashback. Two Years Ago Today. When We Heard Yaro Was Retiring... 25 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2011 It Is I, Yaro, On Beginnings and Endings. It is I, Yaro, returned and remedied by a sojourn to our cabin in the Beehive State. We love it there, the long casualness of days...
In Defense of August 25 Aug 2013 | 08:56 am
Everyone seems down on August this year. I can't fathom why. Oh, I've read the articles. It seems like a whole lot of pissing and moaning. Here are 10 reasons why I love August, all of which you will ...
