Google-fu

Google-fu

Google first. Ask later. Someone else’s got the answers to your stupid questions. We can’t be bothered. *** Yup. Maybe we should start offering this as a basic course in college. Better yet, teach Googling as early as basic education. I remember that our...

Soul searching

One of the huge reasons why I’ve become so jaded teaching in UP is the shifting demographics of the student population. Usually, a discussion of starting salary’s one of the most interesting portions of my English 30 class. Everyone was keen on sharing...

Honors inflation

It’s graduation time once again and I wonder how many kids will be walking tall just because they’d be graduating cum laude or its higher variants. This might be a bit of sourgraping but it seems that it’s just so easy to get honors these days. The...

Bits and bytes

To think that I’ve spent the past twenty-two years of my life studying in a formal setting. Fancy that. Hours spent inside the classroom. I wonder if that should count as living at all. And guess what I’ll be doing for the next few years again. Study....