Assistant Teaching Professor, Purdue University. PhD @NotreDameCJA. Hebrew Bible, Assyriology Let's try to practice kindness.
South Bend, IN
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I have graded 100 freshman-written research papers in the last 4 days. My brain is absolute mush.
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Time to watch the best up and coming pitcher in baseball take the mound. Yoshinobu Yamamoto will also be there. #BravesCountry
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I have been made aware that I have the opportunity to teach a class that I very much want to teach next semester *if* I teach it as an overload. Has anyone taught five classes in a semester before? Is it just completely untenable?
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A good old fashioned case of plagiarism is a welcome surprise in this age of AI. Classics are classics for a reason –– sometimes you just want to hear 'em play Freebird.
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Something I've noticed in grading low-stakes response papers this semester (and boy, have I graded a lot): My students' writing is much, much better when it's done longhand on a piece of paper in class instead of at home on a computer. /1
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And when I say "better," I mean better in every conceivable measure. The prose are better, the analysis of the text is better, their ability to adhere to the prompt is better, it's more creative. It's a pain to sift through the handwriting, but who cares? /2
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Raleigh Heth retweeted
I have no idea why people didn't have stores of fuel and generators, and stocks of food and water. Anyway here's a totally unrelated poverty map of Appalachia.
I am very sympathetic to those slammed by Helene, and I pray for their safety and recovery. At the same time, how is it that in 2024, people who live in the paths of hurricanes STILL DON'T HAVE FOOD SUPPLIES? Not even for a few days? No water supplies? No backup fuel? That seems incredibly ill-prepared given the state of our world today. I pray for these people, but I also pray that more people would have the sense to practice some basic level of preparedness. I will always help those in need, but we also need people to stop living under the delusion that nothing will ever go wrong and that food, water, fuel, comms, medicine, banks, etc., will NEVER have disruptions. S##t happens. Repeatedly. Prepare for it. Expect it.
Raleigh Heth retweeted
Kids should be allowed in most public spaces even if they’re not spectacularly well behaved. Socially isolating parents until their kids are older (or indefinitely if their kids have certain disabilities) is bad, actually. Adults can suck it up and deal.
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