Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Two insights into Grad School

Just wanted to share a couple of all-too-true ways of understanding my present situation:

If you don't know who or what Foucault is, lucky you! I'm sure there's a good Wikipedia article out there if you're rrrreallly interested.








One of the foundations of the history grad school program is the seminar class wherein students do reading and then come prepared to discuss the documents. Sometimes this can be a very helpful way of learning material and developing one's own ideas, but sometimes it can look an awful lot like this "news report":

1 comment:

The Olson's said...

Good clip. If my students could speak English in a more fluent manner I am sure that my classes would look just like this!