EGSA Digest 9.28.12

EGSA,
No room for pictures, jokes, or even irony this week.

Announcements

Critical Information for All Research Assistants

• As suggested above, there is some very important information for all current research assistants. Unfortunately, I don’t have it.
• So, if you are a research assistant, email Nathan Kilpatrick right away. Tell him you want the info. And don’t take no for an answer. Unless it actually is the answer, I guess.

Departmental Tea

• As many of you know, we in the Baylor English department have a longstanding tradition of gathering occasionally on Friday afternoons as students and faculty to commingle and enjoy tea and refreshments.
• For those of you interested in a little of the history behind this tradition, it probably started when someone decided we should all get together occasionally, Friday afternoons being as good a time as any, to commingle and drink tea. Presumably, someone, at some point, started bringing refreshments.
• So come carry on the tradition this afternoon at 2:30pm, CS 4th floor lounge.

Important Deadline: ODK,NLSfGS Application

• I can tell you that the preceding cumbersome acronym stands for Omicron Delta Kappa, National Leadership Society for Graduate Students and that the last day to apply to the Baylor Circle of ODK,NLSfGS is on Mon., 1 Oct.
• I can’t tell you why you should care.

More Important Deadline: Meal Card Pick-up

• This one’s a no-brainer. If you’re teaching classes, go get your card from Morrison Hall 200 before 5 Oct., put on a hat and sunglasses, and go eat bad food with people you don’t want to talk to.

Academic Warnings

• Give them; don’t get them. And do it by Tues., 2 October.

I’ll Let You Form Your Own Opinion Regarding the Relative Importance of This Deadline: GSA “Grad Students Back the Bears” T-Shirt Payment

• The time for breaking open your piggy banks has arrived—or it will arrive shortly: Wed., 3 Oct., is the last day to pay for these T-shirts.
• This one sneaks up on me every time.

Dissertation and Thesis Formatting Workshop

• The faculty and administration know you procrastinated writing your thesis or dissertation, and they know you missed every deadline you set for yourself. That’s why they scheduled another formatting workshop for everyone who missed the first one.
• The final workshop—and they mean it—will be held on Wed., 3 Oct., in Morrison Hall 120 from 3:30-5:00pm.
• See attachment for additional details.