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Verbal tics; or, how to make me cringe

This semester has been a trying time in terms of dealing with other students’ verbal tics. Most notably, I had one HIST class in which a student, who seemed intelligent otherwise, would preface not just every sentence or clause, but nearly every third word, with that Valley Girl standard, “like”. Earlier in the year, it [...]

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Handwriting is pretty neat

Since I’m running on about four hours of sleep, two nights in a row, I found it incredibly difficult to remain focused in class this morning. So, instead of listening attentively to presentations about conceptions of race in the eighteenth century, I resorted to writing the alphabet in my notebook in both print and cursive [...]

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Running into a financial crisis

I thought it might be interesting to post some of the doodles I create in the margins of my notes, for class or otherwise. Here’s the first of the soon-t0-be collection. This blockhead jogger is about to hit a wall of text describing the Board of Trustees’ meeting, and the sorry state of the University’s [...]

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