tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post544122271779649114..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: RYS Flashback: 8 Years Ago Today. What Needed to Be Fixed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-21860180214077716962016-06-11T22:22:56.390-04:002016-06-11T22:22:56.390-04:00Indeed. This is true of almost all dissertations (...Indeed. This is true of almost all dissertations (one of the procrastination techniques that my grad roommate and I contemplated, but were smart enough to not actually engage in, was needlepointing "a done paper/dissertation is a good paper/dissertation" on a pillow). <br /><br />I think this also applies to assessment, which threatens to become an end in itself, in part because so manyContingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-9922982643507833542016-06-11T18:37:57.345-04:002016-06-11T18:37:57.345-04:00>Somewhere in the race to "excellence"...><i>Somewhere in the race to "excellence" in all things, we seem to have lost the ability to maintain and preserve, the satisfactory, workable, good enough</i><br /><br />I can't count how many times my advisor suggested that I shouldn't let "the perfect be the enemy of the good". Not that he wanted the slipshod or a incomplete product. Just that it didn't need dmckeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18052641757203089416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-37597124582418889152016-06-11T16:45:27.601-04:002016-06-11T16:45:27.601-04:00All too familiar/on point, indeed.
Maybe it com...All too familiar/on point, indeed. <br /><br />Maybe it comes under consumerism and entitlement, but it strikes me that the $200 textbooks point to another problem: an ethic that maximizing profits/revenues/"running things like a business" is some sort of positive good/virtue. A related issue is the preoccupation with "competitiveness" and rankings in everything from test Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-92004185398830924012016-06-11T10:35:42.307-04:002016-06-11T10:35:42.307-04:00I appreciate the flashbacks, truly, because I'...I appreciate the flashbacks, truly, because I've not been around long. But seeing the same shit from 6, 8, and 10 years ago makes my career feel hopeless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com