my wife told me she would hate it if i ever tweeted something like happy birthday to my beautiful wife, but she never explicitly mentioned anniversaries, so i would like to wish a very happy seventeenth anniversary to my beautiful wife
- gen z shopper in front of me today paid the gen z cashier with cash, and they looked each other in the eyes and burst out in laughtermen that carry cash are so attractive like oh youre a man man
- I really don’t think people quite grasp just how much more well read highly educated people used to be in the past.
- I love normal cheaters now. A student admitted to getting help from a person on an assignment, and I didn’t even penalize him because I was just so happy it wasn’t AI.
- pov: you’re a literature professorpov: you're a literature student
- Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Dante, Goethe, Homer, Tolstoy, Aristotle, Pushkin, Blake, Lermontov, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cellini, Thucydides, Tacitus, Montaigne, Virgil, Shakespeare, Stendhal, Cellini, Machiavelli, Melville, Milton, Conrad, Rimbaud and Hölderlin.
- I regret to inform you that college is no longer reading books and getting drunkReplying to @SamAdlerBellThat's what college is! Reading books! (And, yeah, getting drunk.) But I don't understand what else you would do there.
- a student asked me if i’d read the books i have on the shelves in my office and i can barely conceive of a more hostile question
- I ordered a pdf of a dissertation from 1780. It’s 8 pages long. Including the title page.
- I miss college so bad because this is literally what every day wasI miss college so bad because this is literally what every day was
- When I started teaching, I’d ask students about favorite authors/books, and I got many answers. Before Covid, when I asked students this question I had to ban JK Rowling, because otherwise they all chose Harry Potter. Now when I ask them they don’t have any favorites at all.
- Study the humanities. Understand what the fuck is going on around you.
