This Just In

It looks like I’ll be taking oral exams this Tuesday.  The graduate coordinator’s office emailed me this afternoon, and I’ve passed written comps.
The standard thing to say at this point (it’s factually true) is thus: “They can never make me take the written exams again.”
So here goes: “They can never make me take the written [...]

Just say it was a bad idea

State Schools Superintendent Throws Out Tests
I know full well that a politician’s admitting a mistake is only allowed to happen when a resignation is turned in (and any former students reading this, note how many passive verbs pop up when I talk about politics), and I know that opposing a policy that one formerly championed, [...]