EGSA Digest 9.7.12

EGSA,

My humiliation at scorching the EGSA Appetize yesterday could not be greater. In an attempt to restore your confidence, I’m including not one but two images of funny street signs within the body of this email. They are pointless and are in no way meant as metaphors for graduate studies in English.

Announcements

Meeting to Determine Your Future

• Next week there will be a meeting in which many important matters directly relevant to you will be discussed. You are not invited.
• However, you will be represented by Nathan Kilpatrick and Michael Milburn. Please let them know if you have any pressing issues that should be brought to the attention of Dr. Barcus and Dr. Vitanza.
• (Lest I cause mass panic, I should note that the four parties mentioned above meet regularly to determine your future. There is nothing singular about this particular meeting.)

Bible Study Group

• Adam Marshall writes:
• The EGSA Bible Study will be starting up again on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 7:00pm. Our first meeting will be at Adam and Brittany Marshall’s apartment, which is located at 2500 Marketplace Dr., Apt. 837, Waco, TX 76711. Please RSVP at Adam_Marshall@baylor.edu so that Adam can give you instructions on entering the complex.

“Who We Are” Updates

• The forecasted horror of the last Digest being not enough to motivate some of you, we have set the default graduation date of all those who have not responded with their program information as 2013 and informed the GPD that he may reliably use that date to determine funding. (Not really.) We have also set your focus/concentration as Twilight Studies. (Really.) Should you wish to change your information, you may now do so yourself by clicking on the following link.

EGSA Member Information

Dues

Graduate Writing Center

• Advanced graduate students are available to help you with your writing. Email them your paper at gwc@baylor.edu, and they will contact you to set up a one-hour appointment.

Upcoming Events

Welcome the New People . . . Autumn Party, Saturday, 15 Sep., 7:30pm, Watsons’

• Keenly aware of my intellectual deficiencies and sympathetic to my plight, good Watson sent me some clarifications regarding his social event. Clothing is, in fact, expected, as is an appreciation for sentimental films in which Batman doesn’t seem to do anyone any good and goes by Laurie.

Graduate Student Reception, Today, 4:00-5:30pm, Jones Library

• See yesterday’s Regurgitate for additional details.

Heteroglossia Event, Thursday, 13 Sep., 2:30-3:30, CS 4th Floor

• Dr. DePalma, “Building Your Professional Community” Come learn how to make friends who can get you a job.

Honors College Lecture, Tuesday, 11 Sep., 3-4pm, ABL Lecture Hall

• B. Fortenbaugh, “Aristotle and Theophrastus on Emotion, Virtue and Social Interaction”

PROFF Workshop, Thursday, 13 Sep., 3:30-5:00pm, Jones Library Creekmore Room

• “Begin with the End in Mind: Working towards Academic Employment throughout Your Time as a Graduate Student”
• Event is free, but registration is required

Gallery Talk and Reception with Photographer Keith Carter, Thursday, 13 Sep., 5:30-7:00pm, Martin Museum of Art

• Still nothing to add here

Jeremy Leatham