In the lobby, a tutor is helping a coed learn Trigonometry. I hear snippets of their (one-sided) conversation, but not more than that. “See, if it’s on the inside… then if it’s on the outside…”. His charge is staring off into space. After ten minutes, he has her work a problem by herself. Across the [...]
I’m all on track to defend my dissertation and graduate in August. All that’s left is to meet a couple of filing deadlines and submit my dissertation to my committee. I have it all planned out. And I like having things all planned out. I like knowing what’s next, what’s around the corner. Before Wednesday, [...]
During my classes today, we discussed the Cold War and how the fear that Communism would spread to the US led to an anti-Communist movement in the 1940s and 1950s. I wanted to get my students thinking about loyalty and disloyalty, so I told them that during World War Two, one of the things the [...]