Comments(1) [Today my section of students in English 104: Composition and Rhetoric and I began our first “real” day of class. I say “real” day of class because we started working with rhetoric concepts from our textbooks. I am teaching a MWF section with 50 minutes each meeting and I wonder where the time goes. I […]
category: Pedagogy
Comments(2) [For over a year now, I have been a closet Country Music Television (CMT) and Great American Country (GAC) watcher, which I justify to people by saying these are the only two stations I know about that still play music videos most of the time and costs nothing extra beyond Expanded Basic cable. I often […]
category: Life, Popular Culture
Comments(0) [I am consistently surprised about how different Year Two of graduate school is compared with Year One. Loyal readers remember not everything went well for me last year, which I attribute to culture shock because I am from Wisconsin, but also the transition from undergrad to grad work despite being a former McNair Scholar. Thus […]
category: Life
Comments(4) [If anyone wonders what happened to my blog over the summer, fear not, because I am back for another year of graduate school. I am finishing up my MA studies and applying for PhD programs again this year, but let’s go back and review last semester. I learned these three important things about graduate student […]
category: Life