Any attempt to summarize or give you the flava would only detract from the awesome.
(And thanks to the Gawker commenters for making it all extra-awesome.)
No matter how miserable my misery has been of late, Professor Caitlin Zaloom, yours has been worse. I salute you.
http://gawker.com/5873148/the-crazy-department+wide-emails-that-everyone-at-nyu-is-talking-about
I can just say, "Thank GOD she's at NYU and not at my school." Narcissism at its worst? best?
ReplyDeleteWow. That's a lot of underlining and bolding and italicizing and asterisking.
ReplyDeleteOne of my closest friends goes to NYU and knows the girl who wrote this. Apparently she has actual paranoid delusions and is on medication for them, meaning her comment about having no mental illness history is a blatant lie.
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ReplyDeleteYes, this is just EPIC in scale. Professor Zaloom has my profound sympathies.
ReplyDeleteI am so slooooo...oooow. Chrome appears to have posted, deleted the post, then Drunk posts, Strelnikov replies, decides there's a bit too much vodka talking, deletes the reply, and then Chrome replies to the post talking about the previously deleted post...
ReplyDeleteI think I need another beer.
Wow wow woweee! I just read this on gawker and came here to post about it. Aye aye aye...I've never had a student like this (cross fingers). I need another shot of whatever!
ReplyDelete"One of my closest friends goes to NYU and knows the girl who wrote this. Apparently she has actual paranoid delusions and is on medication for them, meaning her comment about having no mental illness history is a blatant lie."
ReplyDeleteYou're kidding, right? Shit, I come up with all these evil things, and she's fucking kukoo. If she's mentally ill she should not be at NYU, I don't care what anyone here says....she lied to get an A and get out of the Dean's hair. That's bullshit and NYU should not stand for it.
@Alan
ReplyDeleteI took down my three choices (gulag, deportation to Syria, Bulgarian psikhuska) and the Syrian sniper to avoid any flak....there was nobody here when I posted, then there five posts and Stevie Bramson.
I wonder if she still has "an amazing resume with great recommendations/references, 3 post-graduation job offers".
ReplyDeleteThe prof should get a bonus and a course load reduction as compensation for this work-related stress and anxiety.
ReplyDeleteSadly, I have direct experience with similar students (remember Armond the Author?).
ReplyDeleteActually Armond returned this week, submitting a formal grade appeal. In his explanation, he only mentions a housing issue he had during the term and conveniently leaves out the pages and pages of crazy he spewed forth during the term.
But, I guess my "favorite" challenge was the student who attempted to file a federal civil rights complaint alleging racial, age, and gender discrimination -- in a wholly online class.
Where do I apply for the bonus (combat pay)?
That read like a preamble to the time cube.
ReplyDelete"That read like a preamble to the time cube."
ReplyDeleteYES! Mothafuckin' Gene Ray reference IN THE HOUSE!