EGSA Digest 10.31.14
Although really, the time to get the Halloween candy is tomorrow morning. See you in the HEB clearance aisle! I hope in the meantime you are all dressing your pets/children/selves in hilarious and completely appropriate costumes.
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Interpret “appropriate” however you please.
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Announcements
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El Jefe (Ryan Womack) relayed the following:
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It’s an “I’d Rather†survey this week, with two options to vote on for our Summer I course for 2015. Please take this one-question survey to have a say in what will be offered: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LyP7l7JWEemz3YB2_FUnzUg9zRx-aRg6b5JU6o5F4f8/viewform?usp=send_form
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It’s “Death Is Not An Option,” but with lit courses! Go vote. I’ll go skew the curve by voting even though I’m out of coursework.
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Events
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Homecoming
- It’s this weekend. Floats will float. Bonfires will burn. Sportsball will happen.Â
- Also, parking will be a logistical headache, and every coffeeshop and restaurant in Waco will be crowded with people, so plan your studying wisely.
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PROFF Workshop, Tuesday, November 4
- “Alternative Paths: Non-Faculty Areas of Employment and Service”
- Go to this workshop if the mid-semester blues have you seriously questioning your vocational choices. Â Or even if they don’t.
- 12:00-1:30 PM, location TBD.
- Fregister here.
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PROFF Workshop, Wednesday, November 5
- “On the Trail and at the Table: The Substance and Style of Interviewing”
- 3:30-5:00 PM, Jones Library Creekmore Room
- You must attend this meeting if you wish to do mock interviews with PROFF the following week.
- “The style of interviewing” is one of those things that Vogue never really covers for us adequately. And forget about substance.
- Fregister here.
SET Seminar, Thursday, November 6
- “Social Media Five Ways: Five Approaches from Five Instructors”
- Jones Library 200, 12:30-1:30 PM
- Put the Twitters and the Instagrams to work for you! But really, we all just work for them.
- Fregister here.
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SET Seminar, Tuesday, Nov. 11
- “Graduate and Undergraduate Classes: What’s the Difference?”
- 3:30 PM in Jones 200.
- Taught by Dr. Chris Rios (Graduate School) and Elizabeth Fredericks.
- Yeah, me.
- According to the blurb, I am from the “Enlghish” department. Sounds Lovecraftian.
- This will not boil down to “Grad students are older. And smarter. And prettier.”
- Fregister here.
20th/21st Century Research Seminar (aka ModCon Studies), Friday, Nov. 14
- Mark Eaton of APU will speak on “9/11 and its Literary-Religious Aftermaths”
- In CS 101 at 2:30 PM.
- I’m guessing those aftermaths include alienation. So much alienation. And probably other things, too.
Go forth and weekend.
Elizabeth Fredericks
Mme. Secretary