EGSA Digest 10.19.12
EGSA,
For those of you sitting at home wondering what to do with your day off, I serve up the following.
Announcements
Steppin’ Out
- If you want to impress others, or if you want to be seen with the cool kids from school, or even if you’re just lookin’ for an opportunity to serve the community and do something meaningful, Steppin’ Out could be for you.
- EGSA is puttin’ together a group to participate in this important event, and Marianna Fountain has volunteered to organize our efforts. She writes:
- Join in with other students and faculty to serve Waco at Steppin’ Out. This university-wide day of service will happen on November 10 from 11 AM-3 PM with an optional block party from 2-5 PM. We won’t know what our specific project is until a week before, but it will likely involve painting or yard work (not to mention bonding time and the joys of altruism). More (but not many more) details can be found here.
- Those who can come should contact me (Marianna_Fountain@baylor.edu) before next Thursday, October 25, so that I can register our group.
- From what I can gather, families are welcome and ulterior motives are tolerated.
- So find your inner goodness (it’s there somewhere), email Marianna (who will probably let you borrow some of her abundant goodness if you can’t locate your own), and get ready for a lot of warm feelin’s on 10 Nov.
Cookies (or, as Danielle likes to call it, Spring Registration Q&A)
- Your dedicated peer advisor has organized an important event, and she writes:
- New (and returning) students! Please join your EGSA President and Peer Advisor for an afternoon of cookies and information about registration, course offerings, and degree requirements. We may or may not hear from a few professors about their spring courses, but we will definitely have cookies. If you are unable to attend or if you would like to submit any questions ahead of time, please feel free to complete this survey.
- We will meet in CS 101 on Friday, October 26th at 2:30 p.m.
Fall Break . . .
- . . . is here! If you forgot and accidentally went to school today, don’t worry; nobody saw, and you still have two more days (Saturday and Sunday) of break left to remember to stay home.
Last Day to Defend
- Sorry about the late notice, but if you do not defend your thesis or dissertation by Monday, 29 Oct., you will not be allowed to graduate in December.
- But, really, if you were relying on the Digest to remind you to defend, you’ve got bigger problems than pursuing a graduate degree in English Studies.
Upcoming Events
SET: Cooperative Learning, Mon., 22 Oct., 12:15-1:15pm, Jones Library Creekmore Conference Room
- Correction: In last week’s Digest I suggested that this event would help you and your students work together. After doing a bit more research, however, I learned that the “cooperation†in cooperative learning actually refers to students teaching and helping each other. I apologize for the previous misinformation and any false expectations I may have created.
- So, if you need to read for your seminars while you’re “teaching,†be sure to fregister.
PROFF Workshop, Tues., 23 Oct., 10:30am-12:00pm, Jones Library Creekmore Conference Room
- Composing Your Curriculum Vitae and Cover Letter
- If you feel you are brave enough and strong enough to start thinking about taking some preliminary steps in preparing to give some thought to looking for a job, you should definitely consider fregistering for this one.
Sabbatical Lecture, Tues., 23 Oct., 3:30-4:30pm, CS 101
- Dr. Greg Garret, “Faithful Citizenship”
- Two Catholics, a radical Muslim, and a Mormon walk into a debate hall . . .
Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, Thurs.-Sat., 25-27 Oct., Um, Baylor, I Guess
- “Technology and the Human Flourishing”
- There may be a breakout session on texting and young love.
Downton Abbey Showing and Discussion, Thurs., 25 Oct., 5:00-6:30pm, CS 101
- TV. Food. Friends. I can’t find the humor here. Oh yeah, England.
Robert Browning and Victorian Poetry Conference at 200, Thurs.-Sat., 1-3 Nov., ABL
- I don’t get it. The title, that is. Or poetry, incidentally. Or the reasoning behind conferences, for that matter. But that shouldn’t keep you from fregistering.
Socratic Method for Any Class and Personality, Thurs., 1 Nov., 10-11am, You’ll Know When I Know, Unless You Already Know
- Dr. Trent Dougherty
- This one, I think, does require you to interact with your students. And possibly listen to them. Unless we’re talking about social class here. In which case we can let the federal government handle it. They’re good with the dialectic. Fregister
Lest any question my sincerity, I fully endorse the activities and events presented above. I do recognize, however, that they may not appeal to everyone. So, for those of you who scoff at the Baylor-sponsored, EGSA-supported Steppin’ Out activity particularly, I offer the following alternative: (photo of Neil Sedara Steppin’ Out)
Choose wisely.
Jeremy Leatham
EGSA Secretary