Tag Archives: Quotes

Teaching requirements

By alex | Published: 4/29/2006
“Always be able to kill your students.” – Masaaki Hatsumi (via boing)
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Stripes?

By alex | Published: 3/19/2006
File this under things I never thought I’d hear my partner saying: “I need to figure out what I should wear to prison.”
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Flying academics

By alex | Published: 11/28/2005
Spent much of the day on IM with students. One (anonymous) grad student, in a discussion regarding the expectations of The Academy, commented: “But I am always very interested (from the beginning) why you enter academia. I think you are the person flying in the sky.” It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the disaffected […]
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Blogging with benefits

By alex | Published: 11/28/2005
From a Buffalo craigslist job posting: “I am looking for someone to help me start a blog….if you know how to do it, please me.” Are those two different jobs? (Via Amal.)
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