Entries Tagged as 'education'

The mathematics of politics: US is always greater than THEM

November 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I would like to preface this post by noting that some of the people who know me in person might suspect that this was inspired by a recent very emotional conversation that followed a similar thread (well, to the extent that it followed any threads at all given my state at the time). In fact [...]

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Tags: class · culture · education · personal · politics

hitching bath-chairs to boats

May 20th, 2008 · No Comments

There is something fascinating to me about the way certain things stick in one’s memory where they are pulled up to the surface by strange unrelated things. As a freshman at UW I took an honors comparative literature class that focused on Kafka, Beckett, and Borges. It was intense, strange, and wonderful. The class itself [...]

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Tags: education · literature · music · personal

The United States government’s valuation of higher education

January 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I was just reading something about the state of the union address last night that quoted the line: “We have seen how Pell Grants help low-income college students realize their full potential. Together, we’ve expanded the size and reach of these grants. Now let us apply that same spirit to help liberate poor children trapped [...]

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And now my high school has a wikipedia entry.

September 30th, 2006 · No Comments

I’m not sure how much news coverage this is getting outside of Wisconsin. But this morning John Klang, the principal of the Weston school district, was shot by a student. Klang was ultimately taken to University Hospital in Madison and died this afternoon at 3:30. A fifteen year old student came into the school with [...]

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Tags: education · personal · Wisconsin

The Ivory Tower, Bastion of Privileged Ignorance

February 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Once upon a time I was an idealistic undergrad with great intellectual curiosity who longed to spend her life in the academic realm. At the time I hated the term “ivory tower.” I hated the people who implied that academics were locked away from the world and clueless about the lives of real people. I [...]

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