Category: EGSA Digests

English Graduate Student Association

Vote for EGSA’s 2014 Orientation Co-Chairs

Well, EGSA, It’s time. The candidates are set. The ballot is posted. The suspense is building. And it all comes down to you–if you’ve paid your dues, that is. Our first EGSA election of 2014 is now open. Click on the link below to cast your vote for Orientation Co-Chairs. You may vote for TWO…
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January 27, 2014 0

EGSA Digest 01.24.14

EGSA, So, hi. It’s been a while. Babies and holidays and nothing to announce and denial and stuff. Anyway. What’s up? I’ll tell you what’s up. Because that’s what we do here at the Digest. Announcements Nominations for Orientation Co-Chairs The time has come to elect our orientation co-chairs for 2014. These are the people…
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January 24, 2014 0

EGSA Digest 12.06.13

EGSA, I know you’re busy. After all, it’s about time to start researching for that seminar paper due next week. But grading and Writing Center reports can (generally) wait, and theses and dissertations can (always) wait, so take some time to look over these announcements and save yourself the embarrassment of having your work completed…
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December 6, 2013 0

EGSA 11.22.13

EGSA,   In its athletic excitement, Baylor apparently forgot to schedule any events for the next two weeks. Or maybe they just realized that you are having a hard time getting excited about anything other than next week’s break from feeling guilty about procrastinating your seminar papers. In any case, here’s a record-breaking short Digest.…
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November 22, 2013 0

EGSA Digest 11.15.13

EGSA,   Lean times.   Announcements   Cheap Books Today Emily Brower writes, Baylor University Press is having a $1 book sale today from 9-4. Baylor UP primarily publishes in religion, theology, etc., so most of the books will be along those lines, but also has a decent number of religion & lit books.  The…
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November 15, 2013 0

EGSA Digest 11.08.13

EGSA,   If you’re like your students, you’re taking a few days to recover from your demanding spectating experience last night. We here at the EGSA Digest office are awarded no such luxuries, so here’s another edition. Get to it whenever you feel like you can handle it. Announcements Independent Study; or, We’ll Get You…
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November 8, 2013 0

EGSA Appetize 10.16.13

EGSA, This email interrupts, not ends, the two-week EGSA services shutdown. Apparently, some people naively expect elected officials to do what they were elected to do. Rather than give in to their demands, even if it means doing what’s best for everyone and saving our organization from collapse, we here in the Office of the…
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October 16, 2013 0

EGSA Digest 10.04.13

EGSA, All nonessential EGSA services have been shut down. Unpaid, we here at the Digest toil on. Announcements 19CRS, Today, 3:30-4:30pm, ABL Lecture Hall Sarah Robbins: “A Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic ‘Lean In’ Story: How Jane Addams and Henrietta Barnett Used Writing for Reciprocal Mentoring” Prepare yourself. I can already see the Using Writing for Reciprocal Mentoring…
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October 4, 2013 0

EGSA Digest 09.27.13

EGSA, What does the Digest say? Announcements Time to Pay Joseph Ptomey has discovered the appropriate punishment for those of you who still have not paid your dues. If you have not given $10 to Christina Boyles, click here. Life on the Grad Line, Today, 12:30-1:30pm, SUB Baines Room “Living in the Community of Waco” Free…
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September 27, 2013 0

EGSA Digest 9.20.13

EGSA, Chow down. Announcements The Usual The insistent requests for dues and updated information may be driving some of you to the breaking point—that moment we all experience a few times (per semester) when we think we’d be better off just walking away from it all and writing YA romance novels. Take heart. You’ll make…
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September 20, 2013 0