I was wallowing in a depth of sorrow until the inexplicable snorkel reference, then questioned whether I was allowed a moment of levity or if it was a bizarre irony that an instrument of pain should be so ridiculous
― mh, Friday, 18 November 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
of course it's allowed, we were enjoying ourselves immensely, free at last and holding court in our grimy nightgowns.
― estela, Friday, 18 November 2011 05:46 (twelve years ago) link
what is a snorkel?
― dayo, Friday, 18 November 2011 11:13 (twelve years ago) link
estela that is a beautiful post
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 November 2011 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
xp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u70xf4i1lgg
― questino (seandalai), Friday, 18 November 2011 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
what is a google xx-p
― mh, Friday, 18 November 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
I know a snorkel is something you use to breathe underwater, was just wondering if it had any other meaning.
― dayo, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
it is also something you use to beat your recalcitrant daughters
― Much Ado About Nuttin (DJP), Friday, 18 November 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
it's also something whiney gives to his more fortunate victims
― dayo, Friday, 18 November 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
lol
for accuracy's sake, as much as i don't like people hitting their children, 'beat' in this case is somewhat over-egging the pudding.
― estela, Saturday, 19 November 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
xp thank you tracer
― estela, Saturday, 19 November 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.epi.org/blog/unpaid-internships-economic-mobility/
― iatee, Friday, 6 January 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/01/05/essay-new-approach-defend-value-humanities
talks a good talk but not seeing a lot of WANTED: ENGLISH MAJORS job ads, maybe I'm not looking in the right places
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Saturday, 7 January 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/01/09/010912-news-college-costs-1-5/
― iatee, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
Back in the days of yore, before Bangalore, my mad english major skillz made me a good living as a technical writer. Or maybe is was my technical skillz that did it. Any way, it was one or the other.
― Aimless, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
well, you also weren't a hindoo
― gnome rocognise gnome (remy bean), Monday, 9 January 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
nay, nor no vindaloo-sot, neither
― Aimless, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/one-percent-education.html?src=recg&pagewanted=all
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
Not very insightful or newsworthy imo, the 1% thing is kind of just a hook. Who isn't aware that Harvard et al are full of high-functioning super-keen workaholic children of upper-middle class to upper-class parents? The reason that demographics at elite universities are a demographic issue is not because the top 20 US colleges provide anything like a standard deviation better education than the next 200 colleges; it's the (alleged) resulting insularity of the social networks that develop at those schools. Really tho I suspect that whatever outcome disparity exists between people with BAs from Harvard vs. SUNY Stony Brook—a world-class university according to the usual rankers—looks a lot less significant when you compare students with similar pre-college backgrounds.
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Monday, 23 January 2012 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://hechingerreport.org/content/free-courses-may-shake-universities-monopoly-on-credit_7426/
― iatee, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
Not very insightful or newsworthy imo
yeah p much
― i was a preteen blogger (Lamp), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
i do love that xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/23/udacity-and-the-future-of-online-universities/
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/the-entrepreneurial-generation.html?pagewanted=all
did this ever get mentioned on ILX? I see some truth to the entrepreneurial spirit yada yada yada, but I don't see it as commercialism and complete lack of rebellion and dissent, I think it's about trying to establish a life outside of the failed system of corporate capitalism, even if it's just a sideline to the job that pays your bills.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah we talked about it somewhere. maybe this thread. I made fun of the writer and then dyao said 'no he's cool' and now my gf really likes him because he writes about jane austen and h8ing academia.
― iatee, Thursday, 26 January 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
dyao said 'no he's cool' (because he had him as a college prof)*
but I agree w/ your general assessment
― iatee, Thursday, 26 January 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
he is my favourite academia hater
― caek, Thursday, 26 January 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
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i have not read that article but your gf otm
― horseshoe, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
she got her mom his book for xmas!
― iatee, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2094921_2094923_2105257,00.html
its like you can't even make it as an indie rock band anymore
keep working bb, http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
third thread that's been posted in
― iatee, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
think maybe that belongs in quiddities and agonies
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
no it belongs in
hell
― try again, fascist (Matt P), Friday, 27 January 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
Deresiewicz follows up on that nyt piece
http://theamericanscholar.org/generational-conflict/
― caek, Sunday, 29 January 2012 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think that stanford anecdote is very revealing as the stanford student body isn't very representative of the generation or even the college-attending generation. like, I'd imagine the numbers would be a lot different at cal-state sacramento. it can be dangerous to make assumptions based on yr experience teaching at Yale or living in Portland. etc.
― iatee, Sunday, 29 January 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.quickanded.com/2012/01/tenured-radicals-strange-ideas-about-policy.html
― iatee, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
that's the knee-jerk response when people start ~talking~ about mild reforms. cf health care
― iatee, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
A real education policy would ban anaphora on the internet.
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
"One, for a small East Bay nonprofit, drew several hundred applications. The other, for the office of the Speaker of the California State Assembly—the second-most-powerful person in the eighth-largest economy on the planet—drew three."
Presumably people rationally calculated that at the small East Bay nonprofit there would be fewer layers between them and decision-makers and that they would get the kind of real-world experience with civic issues that people like WD constantly berate elite college students for not having. And that this was preferable to making coffee for the speaker of the assembly. I'm not sure this calculation is correct, by the way! But I'm sure it doesn't have to do with some kind of narcissistic entitlement on the part of Stanford students.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
it's just such a weird thing to take in isolation - like, is your argument that stanford students don't get involved enough in gov't? cause I'm sure that overall they're well represented in the offices of politicians across the country.
― iatee, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
oh man charles murray's 'coming apart: the state of white america' is just... the actual worst. im like 40 pages in and furious
― Lamp, Saturday, 4 February 2012 07:52 (twelve years ago) link
its incredible to me that someone so stupid and gross gets to write op-eds in impt newpapers and magazines instead of being kicked in the spine repeatedly
― Lamp, Saturday, 4 February 2012 07:54 (twelve years ago) link
this is how i feel about Malcolm Gladwell btw
― sarahell, Saturday, 4 February 2012 08:38 (twelve years ago) link
lamp did you see this
"Is This Racist?" colloquy: the American Enterprise Institute asks "How Thick Is Your Bubble?"
― max, Saturday, 4 February 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
tyler cowen thinks it's great for some reason
― iatee, Saturday, 4 February 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
I like the sleight of hand that lets him only talk about white people (the calculations are complicated enough without adding race into the equation!!)
― dayo, Saturday, 4 February 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
Has our addiction to education created the wrong sort of jobseekers?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 4 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
because tyler cowen is an idiot, is why he would think this
― Lamp, Saturday, 4 February 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
he posts good links but he is like the ultimate troll, it is sad how many times a day he trolls me
― iatee, Saturday, 4 February 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link