Each fall, as college towns across the country are gearing up for the onslaught of students returning from summer break, Beloit College releases the Beloit College Mindset List. Designed to help professors better relate to their students, the list provides some insight into the incoming class’s worldview. This year’s highlights, for the Class of 2014 [...]
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, [...]