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In Which Elizabeth Gaskell and Judi Dench Demand that Lorien Read Theology

Posted by on Sep 18, 2008 in Scholar | 0 comments

If ever moti­va­tion existed for trudg­ing through the task of read­ing 175+ aca­d­e­mic pages a day, plan­ning two research projects, and writ­ing book reviews, jour­nal arti­cle cri­tiques, and dis­cus­sion board entries each and every day… … then it existed in the form of Cranford. My big boxes full of text­books (half of which are big­ger than the Bible, thank you.) arrived four weeks into an eight week grad­u­ate course. My first bona fide grad­u­ate course (nearly half of my Missouri State classes were 500s, but it’s not the same). My first course, period, in...

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Glutton for Punishment

Posted by on May 23, 2007 in Observer, Scholar | 1 comment

I am a fool. A smart fool, but a fool nonethe­less. I have will­ingly signed up for more classes. My GPA is right on the bor­der. 3.745. If I take just one more class, I’m bumped up to Magna CL in the U.S., and firmly upper Second Class in the U.K. I was fine with set­tling with a 3.74 in order to JUST BE DONE. Until I was look­ing at my tran­script and think­ing, but, but, that 3.75 would be awfully pretty… so I decided, okay. One more class. Then I thought, hmm. If I take two more classes, then I can receive most of my nor­mal schol­ar­ships and grants and so on. That’d...

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I Haven’t Got Time…

Posted by on May 23, 2007 in Observer, Odds and Ends, Scholar | 0 comments

I Haven’t Got Time…

I will have to buy this stamp for future use in grad­ing stu­dents’ essays.      

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RE: University Safety Procedures

Posted by on Apr 17, 2007 in Activist, Observer, Scholar | 2 comments

An Open Letter to Dr. Michael T. Nietzel, President of Missouri State University. President Nietzel, I respond to your offi­cial state­ment on the sub­ject of our beloved University’s safety procedures. I am dis­ap­pointed by the reit­er­a­tion of Missouri State’s fool­ish and detri­men­tal pol­icy which pro­hibits legally car­ried firearms on our cam­pus. We have seen in Virginia the dan­ger of such discrimination. As a stu­dent of Missouri State University, I have at all times abided by the stated pol­icy in that I have not car­ried a firearm onto cam­pus. I have...

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Library Fiasco

Posted by on Oct 20, 2006 in Scholar | 0 comments

I’m being billed $60 for water dam­age and mold on a book that I checked out? I. Think. Not. Unfortunately, I sus­pect that when I go in to tell them that: They need to can­cel the $170 that they billed to the bursar’s office when I had paid the full fines last week, fines which had then amounted to $133.75. I want to check-in about 20 books, pay the late fees ($3ish), and imme­di­ately check them back out. … that per­haps they won’t believe that my pen­chant for keep­ing books months later than I’m allowed to keep them is in fact evi­dence to how I would never allow...

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Far, Far Too Much Tea

Posted by on Jul 23, 2006 in Observer, Scholar | 0 comments

I have expe­ri­enced the lazi­est of Saturn’s days. I awoke at eight, promptly set water to boil, and caught up to last night’s rest­ing point in Barchester Chronicles. This con­tin­ued until Barchester was com­plete, where­upon I answered all num­ber of voice­mails and emails that I’d ignored for too many days. I fol­lowed this with a shower, in which I did away with yesterday’s pyja­mas and jumped straight into another set — no need to waste a quarter’s worth of laun­dro­mat money when I shan’t be going leav­ing my apartment. I then watched 84 Charing Cross Road...

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