Oh yeah. It saves us all a lot of pain. I can’t imagine how it would be if that hadn’t gone in that way.

Well, I’d go the opposite route. I say you tell her the next time you see her how sorry you are for all of the trouble, and you would love to see all the comments from the students if possible. It makes you look really good—she sees that you want her input, which makes her feel good, and you make her feel like she has…

First of all, I just want to say that the way she gave you the feedback was beyond incredibly shitty. I doubt every person disliked you, which makes me wonder if she had an agenda here. For 3 years, I was responsible for organizing legal trainings. Some presenters completely shit the bed. However, we NEVER presented…

I have to disagree, respectfully. For example, when motives are things like extreme politicial or religious beliefs, I think its important to expose exactly what that type of mentality reaps. Out of the horror of the shooting in Charleston, a much-needed conversation happened about “Southern pride” and ”heritage.”…

I think while she gave you the nickname-the important thing to remember is she gave you your full name too! So saying that you think your name (that she gave you) is lovely and you feel that as an adult you want to just go by your given name is totally an acceptable way to go. Tell her that your childhood nickname was…

Thank you for this. I will be nearly 40 when I get my PhD, and I fight these feelings of being “behind” all the time.

Let her know the old one bothers you and the two of you come up with a new one. That way you get your wishes met and she is part of the new, special name.

Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. They have helped a lot. I do love school, I went from early childhood because I love working with children. Unfortunately, when you are an early childhood worker, you are among the working poor in America. I made more working at Target than I did as a preschool…

This reminds me of the hysterical trolls where a guy was calling in to Christian talk shows and telling the story of his personal salvation, which involved “moving in with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air” ;-).

Working full-time and going to school is terrible. You (and by you, I mean me) will fall behind, drop classes, and graduate “behind schedule.”

You sure do. You also get used to them trading players they deem are “on their last legs” only for them to go on to break all kinds of records. Brees, Seau, Sproles to name a few. Whoever is making these calls needs to be canned.

Definitely. Tell her to stop, if you don’t think she’d take it very badly.

Anyone else read this article today?

I’m a Chargers fan. It couldn’t be a sadder team to be a fan of. Add in the ridiculousness of possibly sharing a stadium with the fucking Oakland Raiders and yeah, I might just have to throw a dart at a board and whatever team it lands on gets my loyalty. Unless it’s the New England Patriots.

I have friends who prefer “Indian” because they feel the term Native American normalizes colonialism by including them in a nation that invaded them. They get lectured by white people and even going children in why the “correct” thing to call themselves is Native American.

some time in the mid-90s I fell out of my bunk bed and hit my head. My parents took me to the ER, and the doctors asked me various questions to determine my mental status. One of them was “Who’s in charge at the White House?” I deadpanned “Hillary” and had the whole ER laughing. I was seven or eight.

Anybody who thinks the reason someone is an adjunct is just because they’re not trying hard enough is clearly unaware of the reality of the academic job market right now and doesn’t really have anything worthwhile to say about this article. I don’t know why it’s so important to flopsy that we acknowledge that…

I adjunct sometimes and avoid hot button issues like the plague because I don’t want to deal with this crap. Fortunately, I teach a pretty apolitical topic.

Sounds like some typical Liberal Tolerance workshopping right there. If only these kids knew how much your Liberalism was working in their favor.

yeah man. i only taught college kids for two semesters and it was quite an eye-opener to see how much pushback i got when i’d even suggest that my male students not be averse to reading female writers, or that perhaps one shouldn’t write an essay on nasa being defunded because of obamacare, etc — i would never have…