For most people, nightmares include intrinsically scary elements. Your second grade teacher suddenly becomes a T-Rex and disembowels all of your classmates Red Wedding-style as you stare on in horror. Out of nowhere, you're in your dorm, and MONSTERS! Scary MONSTERS! show up and all you have to fight them with is your stupid Red … Continue reading The Night of the Dissertation Proposal Defense
Category: Higher Education
The Underwhelm of Academia
All achievements in academia seem to be underwhelming. You write and write waiting for that moment of validation ("send it on to the committee"), only to feel completely underwhelmed when it actually comes through because you're so emotionally exhausted from the entire process.
Ms. Jordan, weren’t we supposed to read Augustine…?
In elementary school, you dream that the teacher doesn't know your name. In middle school, you enter a nightmare world where you show up to school with raging acne and everyone knows but you. In high school, the nightmare matures as much as you have and involves having a final exam in a class you never attended. As an instructor, it becomes far more sinister... showing up for a class without lecture notes, or having not prepped for the day at all, or being forced to teach organic chemistry when you normally teach Latin American poetry.
Converse College Lowers Tuition 43%–And Makes This Alumna Proud
As a child of the (soon to be talked about, if current colleagues are correct) student loan bubble generation, the news from Converse College about their 43 percent cut in tuition is the right step in making my alma mater affordable once again. This tuition cut actually brings the overall cost of attendance down to … Continue reading Converse College Lowers Tuition 43%–And Makes This Alumna Proud
Holly A. Jordan 