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I’ll be going to Utah State University this next Fall, in which I’ll be majoring in Wildlife Sciences. I’m not sure if I’ll be a Freshman, though. I’ll have around 44 credits upon entering, so I don’t know where this would put me class-wise.
I am a freshman at SUNY Binghamton (binghamton U or whatever they are calling it this week) studying the philosophy of law and politics. im having doubts about it
I went to Boston University and studied English. It took me 7 years to get my degree b/c I took a break in the middle and had a few years off to chill / work / get married etc. … I eventually graduated via the London Campus …
"girl " wrote:I’m still waiting for my acceptance letter from Bovine University.If you are accepted can we call you Cowgirl?
"fata morgana " wrote:I studied at Concordia University, on and off, for a decade. I still haven’t graduated…Shows you what kind of student I am… It seemed like this undergrad stuff never ended and with the student loan I’m still paying off and will probably be paying off for the rest of my half assed life– some people take to it like a duck to water–but it really wasn’t worth it for me.I now know two people on the faculty of the Concordia English dept, one who’s been there for two or three years, and one who’ll be joining in the fall. I liked Montreal a lot when I was up there a year or so ago. It’s nice to be able to get moules-frites in your average pub.
"King Tubby " wrote:I now know two people on the faculty of the Concordia English dept, one who’s been there for two or three years, and one who’ll be joining in the fall. I liked Montreal a lot when I was up there a year or so ago. It’s nice to be able to get moules-frites in your average pub.Who are the teachers? Maybe I know them. I took a minor in Creative Writing but have stayed more in the Lit part than anything else… I think you mentioned in another thread that you were going to start teaching in California ? Congrats
Yes, moules-frites, steak-frites, frites-frites… "King Tubby " wrote:John Sachs is the one who’s there now, and Danielle Bobker is the one who’s starting in the fall. Bobker was an old student of Marcie Frank’s, so she was a shoo-in for the job. Kind of pisses me off, actually, as I applied for the position too and was told through a third party that Sachs deemed me "a fucking rock star" after reading my application file. But Bobker’s Canadian (which matters hugely in hiring in Canadian universities) and had the old-teacher connection. She and her partner are glad to be heading back to Canada, so good for them. They’re solid people.I’ll be teaching at Caltech in Pasadena for two years starting in the fall, but just a little (two courses per year). It’s a postdoctoral position that’s geared mainly around my doing research and writing my book at the Huntington Library, which has perhaps the country’s best collection of 18th-C British material (my area of specialization), and is surrounded by 120 acres of botanical gardens. It’s really a gift from the gods that’ll help me get my budding career going in style. Until that gig came through, I had NOTHING. And then suddenly one of the top-three most desirable gigs of this hiring season dropped into my lap. Life is crazy.
Yes, I know Jonathan Sachs. I took a poetry course (I think it was entitled The Romantic Period) but I dropped it for personal reasons. I had fun discussing with another student about one writer, whom I thought was personally sniffing his printing plates. To which this student disagreed and said that the way he wrote corresponded with Milton’s Paradise Lost text. Anyway, I can’t remember the whole story but I think I was too influenced by the whole Coleridge and Wordsworth semi-autobiographical movie–whose name escapes me at the moment.
But again, congrats!
"fata morgana " wrote:Yes, I know Jonathan Sachs. I took a poetry course (I think it was entitled The Romantic Period) but I dropped it for personal reasons. I had fun discussing with another student about one writer, whom I thought was personally sniffing his printing plates.William Blake, no doubt. I was going to be a "Blakeist," but decided to keep his work alive for my own enjoyment and edification, rather than murder it by dissecting it for a dissertation. I did end up publishing an essay that tries to make sense of one of his most inscrutable shorter poems, "Europe: A Prophecy," though.
Sachs is a nice guy. I don’t know him really well, though I talked with him at some length at a conference in Montreal last year. He went to grad school at Chicago with a friend of mine who, it turns out, will be on a fellowship at the Huntington this year. That means I already have a drinking buddy out in Pasadena.
"King Tubby " wrote:That means I already have a drinking buddy out in Pasadena.That’s what every writer needs. Apart from ink for the quill
Studied Political Science at Central New Mexico, but realized I was never going to be a teacher, lawyer or politician, and realized I took the classes just go get in arguments with Raza’s and Anarchists. So now I’m going to ITT Tech for an Associates in Computer Networking.
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