An interview with my very cool mother on her new job as Lebanese American University's Vice Chancellor. She's long been my favorite person, and she should be yours too. Al Mohajer interview with Marla Rice-Evans, Vice Chancellor at LAU.
Tag: academia
Student
No matter what sort of bureaucratic nightmare I have to suffer to work as a professional writing tutor, the frustrations pale next to the exciting, multi-talented students that I get to support and challenge. I have had an extra vibrant string of students this week--sociological studies on Michael Jackson, human geography of Tanzania, critical analyses… Continue reading Student
Tutor
I'm trying to not get wildly upset at the SCCC administrators about their totally useless tutor training. The most difficult part of my grumpy energy is that I don't even know who to direct my comments towards; everyone I've tried to communicate with has pointed me to someone else. It almost feels as if they… Continue reading Tutor
Grad
So as you know if you follow my every move via social media, I got a big fat rejection email from the grad program I applied to at the University of Washington. While part of me is surprised--the honors-graduating, essay-planning, highlighter-toting part of me--in many ways, I expected it. My application was viciously progressive, and… Continue reading Grad
Job
Hiring timelines are the worst. I was always under the impression that folks posted hiring memos when they needed a person to start working soon or immediately. I was apparently misinformed. Most of the jobs I've applied to that I'm really excited about have taken weeks to get back to me, if I've even heard… Continue reading Job
White
In the writing center where I used to work, I helped a white student with an anthropology personal statement for graduate school. During our session, as the student was explaining their choice to focus their studies in anthropology--instead of sociology--they said, "Sociology is Anthropology for white people." At the time, I chuckled and continued to… Continue reading White
Grad School
Everyone thinks I'm going to get into my grad program except me. In preparation for the inevitability of reapplying next year, I am reading Octavia Butler's entire bibliography since I'll write my (nonexistent) master's thesis on her work and Afrofuturism. I worry that grad school would cut into my dramatic network television watching though. Thinking… Continue reading Grad School
Critical Writing
It's amazing the immense difference that moving a paragraph can make. Working on my critical writing sample for grad school and tore down a wall by moving page three to page one. It's all making sense! Now I just have to finish it.
Code
And this week, my boss & I are obsessed with color coding.
Jesse Rice-Evans 