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Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

"I coulda went through college..."

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Many years ago - make that many decades ago - I went to an introductory Scientology session with my late (and hysterically funny) friend Mar...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Ah, the Age of Enlightenment

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Admittedly, the world probably didn't need another high school production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible . ("I saw Goody Osbur...
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Monday, May 12, 2025

One big, sordid mess

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My alma mater has been in the news lately.  And the news that's been in the news is not good. I'm a graduate of Emmanuel College in ...
Wednesday, May 07, 2025

DOGE Bro Wannabe

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Alex Shieh is a sophomore at Brown University. So he's obviously a pretty smart kid, with the requisite grades, AP courses, SAT's, a...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Yesterday's space shot? Yep, amid the celeb nonsense, there's some inspiration in there

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My husband had an abiding interest in physics in general and space exploration in particular. A few weeks before he died, he told me that he...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Bottom of the barrel at Cracker Barrel

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Although I've been to a Cracker Barrel a couple of times, I'll never be a regular.  There aren't many around here The calories I...
Thursday, January 09, 2025

Way to wreck your college career - and maybe even beyond - Greyhounds!

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Didn't a college prank used to be a panty raid or stealing a traffic cone? One Christmas, at my all women's Catholic college in the ...
Tuesday, January 07, 2025

Hooked on phonics

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a-ay-aw a as in apple a (ay) as in lake a (aw) as in claw gu-je g (gu) as in gum g (je) as in gym It's been nearly seventy years (gulp) ...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

What would Joe Friday do?

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I haven't watched it in years, but the "reality" show COPS , which follows real-life police officers while they make their rou...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Moola moola!

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I couldn't get the story. Business Insider   has a paywall. But I was able to grab the lede: College donors are feeling pressure to dona...
Tuesday, August 06, 2024

There's the Freshman 15; and then there's the Freshman $51K

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Sometimes you luck out with your college roommate. I did.  Joyce and I seemingly had little in common, but we became great friends. During c...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Ola, Vikram. (The power of Duo Lingo)

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My Duolingo streak is now over 200 days.  How's my Spanish? Not entirely mal , but not exactly muy bien .  I can understand almost all t...