tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post1453660260902165973..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: An End of the Semester Little Self-Aggrandizement CornerCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-30823441420404144932007-05-03T07:43:00.000-04:002007-05-03T07:43:00.000-04:00Yikes: "popinjay" is one of my ten year old son's ...Yikes: "popinjay" is one of my ten year old son's favorite words.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-79868003489443292712007-05-02T21:12:00.000-04:002007-05-02T21:12:00.000-04:00so I hope that's not the funniest thing I read tod...<I>so I hope that's not the funniest thing I read today. But I suspect it might be.</I><BR/><BR/>Shockingly enough, it wasn't. EJ: that takes the cake. <BR/><BR/>And thanks very much for the kind comments Nicola. That <I>is</I> genius.<BR/><BR/>And JJC: actually, I've decided the word is "popinjay."Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-276709468589386332007-05-02T19:17:00.000-04:002007-05-02T19:17:00.000-04:00Karl, this is exactly the kind of list that passes...Karl, this is exactly the kind of list that passes through my mind after every class I teach. How nice to have someone else do it for you. I trust the Brooklyn College students will be similarly inspired. A preview of their genius: "Although I am no knight, I am a person dealing with my own nature everyday" (after reading SGGK).Nicola Masciandarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01279665722551517693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-81102919630938237722007-05-02T18:25:00.000-04:002007-05-02T18:25:00.000-04:00I told myself to stay away from this thread, but t...I told myself to stay away from this thread, but then I couldn't. My favorite comment from a student on an evaluation was:<BR/><BR/>"I feel deep hatred for her as a teacher, but she's fun to hang out with outside of class."Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-52739256693810081402007-05-02T12:21:00.000-04:002007-05-02T12:21:00.000-04:00preposterous?<B>preposterous</B>?Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-85805362642931657812007-05-02T09:33:00.000-04:002007-05-02T09:33:00.000-04:00flowendegieddum: it's only 9:30am, so I hope that'...flowendegieddum: it's only 9:30am, so I hope that's not the funniest thing I read today. But I suspect it might be.<BR/><BR/>And now I shamble off to the library, where I'll skulk in a carrel and craft some more preposterous twaddle. (note to JJC: I'm included another word for your collection. Can you find it?)Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-66738884840987791632007-05-02T03:27:00.000-04:002007-05-02T03:27:00.000-04:00I just have to share this one, which some of you h...I just have to share this one, which some of you have probably heard before. A prominent Chaucer scholar at my school, who tries to "resist seeming definitive in order to encourage student thinking" received this comment from a student: "Professor X is such a nice guy. It's a pity he doesn't know more about Chaucer."flowendegieddumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076974717112674194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-76347072276850600692007-05-01T12:30:00.000-04:002007-05-01T12:30:00.000-04:00Michael O'R: if the student had said that reading ...Michael O'R: if the student had said that reading James in your course was <EM>better</EM> than her collegiate sexual experience, THEN I would be impressed.<BR/><BR/>As noted previously, my words this semester are skulk, shamble, and twaddle. All of my students now employ them.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-86495898161740221942007-05-01T05:33:00.000-04:002007-05-01T05:33:00.000-04:00You do realize half the notes we take are really "...You do realize half the notes we take are really "funny things the prof said in class," yes?<BR/><BR/>I have lots of them! I just never bother to put them in list form or give them back. :-PGlaukôpishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11021360723399801160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-16019459460456880682007-05-01T01:38:00.000-04:002007-05-01T01:38:00.000-04:00A female student's evaluation of my Henry James co...A female student's evaluation of my Henry James course a couple of years ago:<BR/><BR/>"Its the best thing I've done in college....apart from having sex".<BR/><BR/>I should hope so is all I could say in response.Michael O'Rourkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03110210128389911666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-4566036560549046152007-04-30T21:14:00.000-04:002007-04-30T21:14:00.000-04:00MU: that's hilarious."Wo Es war, soll Ich werdenI'...MU: that's hilarious.<BR/><BR/>"Wo Es war, soll Ich werden<BR/>I'd rather die than give you control."<BR/><BR/>Okay, so it doesn't really scan, but the meaning is there.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-9771819623080353632007-04-30T18:08:00.000-04:002007-04-30T18:08:00.000-04:00Once a student tallied for one semester all my Fre...Once a student tallied for one semester all my Freud quotations and all my NIN lyric references. Unsurprisingly, it turned out almost 2-to-1 in favor of Trent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com