Today, around the globe, thousands (dare I say hundreds of thousands) of Aggies will gather to observe what is known as “Aggie Muster.” No other American university has a tradition like Muster and like so many Aggieland traditions, it fits in the category of “from the outside looking in, you cannot understand it. From the …
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May
05
The Cheapening of Liberal Arts Education
An article published in the March 31, 2010 edition of the New York Times, examining the burgeoning role of psychology and neuroscience in college English departments, sparked a debate on a recent podcast of Slate’s “Culture Gabfest,” regarding the future of college English departments and humanities studies as a whole. The three panelists expressed outrage …
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Jul
08
An absurd policy
The University of Texas-Tyler is, without a doubt, the bane of my existence. Without getting into too many details, I attended UT-Tyler for two years. I made a lot of mistakes and bad decisions during those two years, chief among them deciding to enroll in classes there. Anytime I request a transcript from this institution, …
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