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Girls Who Wear Glasses
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Dorothy Parker
Even the nights are better…
Each evening, I find myself feeling weird and guilty when I just, like, have drinks with friends and then watch TV. Surely, there is something more to do than laundry and fix my own dinner. I will be playing solitaire on the iPad and watching Community and I’ll feel like I’m not doing something. Guess what? I don’t have anything else to do! I am done with school.
I can’t get used to it.
A Weekend Chat
I was visiting a friend this weekend and we had a long conversation about job searching in these incredibly trying times. She and I are both feeling terribly defeated and bleak about the whole situation.
She told me about a situation she’d recently heard about at the university where she works: a new faculty member was hired and that person had only a very few real life qualifications. However, this person was also a protege of that department’s chairperson. Not only that, but this new hire also happened to be a black, gay man. These qualities were, apparently, appealing on a surface level as they would fulfill some rather arbitrary diversity requirements the university has recently instituted. None of this is unheard of, of course. It stings, however, to know that despite working hard, crafting an impressive portfolio/resume, and making an effort to continue to grow and learn, another (less qualified) candidate may still beat you out based solely on qualities over which you have no control.
I still believe in hard work. That is something that my parents instilled in me from a very young age. What I am currently struggling with, though, is the idea that in academia, hard work counts for very little (at least much of the time, anyway).
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1 All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.
Mark Twain on the myth of originality in a letter to his friend Helen Keller, who had been accused of plagiarism. (via explore-blog)
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Teenagers need around eight to ten hours of sleep but get much less during their workweek. A recent study found that when the starting time of high school is delayed by an hour, the percentage of students who get at least eight hours of sleep per night jumps from 35.7 percent to 50 percent. Adolescent students’ attendance rate, their performance, their motivation, even their eating habits all improve significantly in school times are delayed.
Internal Time – the science of chronotypes, “social jet lag,” and why you’re so tired. (via explore-blog)
die Bibliothek: 3 Ways College Libraries Are Exploring Pinterest
3 Ways College Libraries Are Exploring Pinterest
Pinterest, the social network on which users share collections of images inspired by their hobbies and design interests on digital pin boards, has exploded in popularity since coming online in 2010. The Association of College and Research…
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1 Despite its prevalence, living alone is one of the least discussed and, consequently, most poorly understood issues of our time.
Going Solo – a brief history of the rise of living alone and the enduring social stigma around singletons (via explore-blog)
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Kids Today vs. Kids in 1982
An interesting infographic (this is an excerpt, full version is here) for many reasons, including smoking, safe sex and graduation rate stats. But pay special attention to that “career aspirations” section there.
We’ve got some work to do yet, science fans. The importance of STEM jobs in our economy is only growing. We can’t let a generation slip away.
(via PR Daily)
Grammar Dilemma
At tonight’s open house, I spoke to multiple parents who were distressed because their high school-aged students were not only not being taught grammar at school, they were not even being expected to demonstrate basic good grammar in their writing.
I’ve never taught students in any other school than my own. I’ve always been a private school teacher, so it’s hard for me to know how much of this is perception and how much is truth. Are public schools not teaching grammar in high school?
(via libraryjournal)
