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Day 116: Don't Trust Anyone The Sequel

May 18, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

A little old school Steve Austin. This is NOT a rally, obviously. It was an episode of RAW. This is the Stone Cold Steve Austin shirt I thought of as I read this. My[…]

Day 115: and so we say goodbye to one of our own

May 18, 2017 phillUncategorized

I can’t bring myself to write much on tonight’s topic. Tomorrow we say goodbye to Dobson. The tumor in his head is slowly but surely killing him and he’s in such pain. This is the[…]

Day 114: Injustice (the game)

May 16, 2017 phillUncategorized

Julie bought me a copy of Injustice 2 today because she’s the best. :* I’m about to play for a while, as soon as I finish a few tasks I need to get done here.[…]

Day 113: Lies My Parents Told Me III: sort of not a lie as much as an expectation

May 15, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

I think I’ve been pretty brutally honest about how my graduate education went. There were some really, really high points. I met some amazing people. I found my soul mate. I did what I think[…]

Day 112: On the second day of graduation, what I wish I'd been told when I left my undergrad experience

May 14, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

This is a little different version of the last post I made. Most of my students are NOT going to graduate school. Most of them are leaving academia to be in a field. For any[…]

Day 111: On graduation day, my advice to those students flying off on their own

May 14, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Time for a top 10 list. As Miami watches the class of 2017 disperse off into the world to do the amazing things they will do, I want to offer my last little bit of[…]

Day 110: Nothing pulls it all together like an article on Inside HigherEd

May 12, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

So this one made the rounds today. I want to respond to it, mostly because two times this week I talked about academic bullying in varied contexts, and it’s not a new topic at all[…]

Day 109: How Bizarre or Business as Usual

May 12, 2017 phillUncategorized

Yesterday I was exhausted, so I sort of phoned in my post. I wanted to revisit something from earlier this week, though: that idea of mobbing. I want to walk you through the way the[…]

Day 108: Endings and beginnings

May 11, 2017 phillUncategorized

Tonight we had our end-of-the-year Esports dinner and we said goodbye to our first set of seniors. We also inducted our first hall of famer. It was a nice moment. It’s been a whirlwind with[…]

Day 107: on Death

May 9, 2017 phillUncategorized

This is turning out to be a stretch of post-1oo posts that could be referred to as “the bummer” period. That’s how life goes. I found out yesterday, by Googling, that my mom’s “mother”– the[…]