Showing posts with label joys of academia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joys of academia. Show all posts

Sunday, July 01, 2012

Inflating bubble

45 percent of students did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning during the first two years of college, and 36 percent of students did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning over four years of college.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Empire strikes back

Dissent from Lyssenkoist orthodoxy will not be tolerated in Pepea.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Classic Obama: patronizing, dishonest, syntactically muddled, and grammatically challenged.

I would therefore agree with the suggestion that in the future, our concern in this area is most appropriately directed at any employer who would even insinuate that someone with Mr. Chen's extraordinary record of academic success might be somehow unqualified for work in a corporate law firm, or that such success might be somehow undeserved.
Typical error in the Ivies and affirmative action circles. Success is confused with achievement. A 12 year gig at U.C. without publishing a page of research. I would like a deal like that.

Thursday, July 07, 2011

Mathematics Position To Pass Along

Just putting it in the hopper. Feel free to forward along, gents.

~mft

Thursday, June 23, 2011

AA's favorite dept at Yale is back

...to blaming the US and Israel for everything, likely. It will have to hammer out daily how it is that pro-Israel Jews and their supporters against Islamic (and anti-Semitic) totalitarianism are the cause of all anti-Semitism. Fortunately, 'elite' American academia is just the place where sophistries like this are most developed.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Sunday, March 06, 2011

How to use a reciprocal saw, the Chicago way

REGURGE: The students were respectful. They were smart and asked good questions, intelligent questions and seemed engaged in the idea of human sexuality," said Melvoin-Berg. So what were those "intelligent questions"? Like, is that thingie reciprocal, or reciprocating?
Re-Regurge: Reciprocating redhead did not publish anything? Oh, c'mon. What's to publish in that "field"?

Tuesday, September 07, 2010