UD is... "Salty." (Scott McLemee) "Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons) "Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry) "Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious." (Rate Your Students) "I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere, except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer, and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?" (Tenured Radical) |
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Wanting to be Liked Vaguely depressing essay, by a politics professor, about what it's like to teach at Georgetown University. It's in the Georgetown student newspaper. Among the things she says, there's this: I’ll wager that students don’t realize how seriously most of us profs take those student evaluations. |