Wednesday, 2 November 2005

I love the smell of an insult in the morning

Note to self: grow a thick skin:

“The visiting professors are not up to the quality that the Duke professors are,” said senior Kate Abramson, a political science minor and public policy studies major. She added that she was deterred from majoring in political science partly because of the lack of professors.

After all, we all know that having 17 APSRs on your vita makes you a better teacher.

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3 comments:

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[Permalink] 1. Hei Lun Chan wrote @ Wed, 2 Nov 2005, 12:00 pm CST:

The important question is: was she in one of your classes?

 
[Permalink] 2. Chris Lawrence wrote @ Wed, 2 Nov 2005, 12:05 pm CST:

No (and if she were, I wouldn’t have mentioned her comment in my blog…)

 
[Permalink] 3. Scott wrote @ Wed, 2 Nov 2005, 2:19 pm CST:

Chalk this up to one more example of students being clueless about what a professor is…what a professor does…and what makes good teaching.

Then again, if mommy and daddy were paying that much for me to go to college, I guess I would get to complain if the sprinkles on my sundae were the wrong color.

 
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