Posts Tagged ‘academia’
Rejection, Failure, and Self Reflection
Posted by: annieem on: June 25, 2009
My first panic attack happened during the summer before my second year (not my first, interestingly) of graduate school and adjunct teaching. I was walking along 5th Avenue in NY and suddenly stopped breathing: there’s no other way of explaining it. I responded with the usual Prozac and Psychotherapy, stopping the latter soon after realizing [...]
Summertime Blogging
Posted by: annieem on: May 26, 2009
The Academic Blogosphere (the blogging world in which I live) seems to go on semi-hiatus once classes end—or at least once they end for you semester system schools. We on the quarter system are still plugging away for 2 more weeks. Interestingly, I’ve found few community college instructors who are bloggers (as is also true with [...]
Instant Response
Posted by: annieem on: April 28, 2009
Mark Taylor’s op-ed piece in The New York Times yesterday, “End the University As We Know It,” was so infuriating, that bloggers dropped everything to respond to it. My hard copy (yes, I’m old fashioned that way) is riddled with my notes mostly blasting the little bugger (though with a few concessions: can’t argue with cross [...]
