Category Archives: life around campus

Unions!

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Pat Bowne

Finally a group of adjuncts have managed to form a working union! Pretty amazing. How recently was it that I was complaining about how non-insurrectionist downtrodden PhDs were? I’m happy to be proved wrong. I have mixed feelings about unions. … Continue reading →

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Grad Student Poverty

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Pat Bowne

The fourth Royal Academy novel will involve graduate students, so I’ve been asking friends for anecdotes and input on the essence of grad studenthood. So far the overwhelming consensus is that graduate study is all about the search for free … Continue reading →

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Professors’ preoccupations – grading

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Pat Bowne

Gina Barreca over at Brainstorm listed six ways to make grading easier, and immediately I was hooked. Like any kind of workers, profs love to talk about better ways to do the key tasks of the field. I had so … Continue reading →

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Plot noodling – teaching magic

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Pat Bowne

Well, nobody was intrigued by my previous post about the Zoomancy faculty’s brilliant idea of having brownies grade papers for them. But I will persist, as grading and teaching issues are on my mind at the end of the semester. … Continue reading →

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College Girl Literature – does it matter?

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Pat Bowne

My new fave blog, Geekachicas, posted last year on College Girl Literature and recommended some of my favorite books. The thing that made me uneasy, though, was that these were my favorite books quite a while before I entered college. … Continue reading →

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Ferocious Critques ‘r Us

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Pat Bowne

I just wrote the ending to another novel on Sunday night — mainly because it had to go out to my critique group. I write bad endings. Really horrible endings. The first ending to everything I’ve ever written has been … Continue reading →

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Hiding out

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Pat Bowne

I was poking around over at the University of Venus and found a discussion about where faculty ‘hid’ on campus, when they needed to get some work done without interruption. On my current campus, I don’t have a hideyhole. The discussion … Continue reading →