OF A GOLDEN AGE

the other day, my favorite professor told our class that he generally disapproves of outlining because it can limit a thinker’s ability to spread out and really inhabit an idea wholly.

today, another professor told our class that she highly recommends outlining and does not like when she senses a paper has no cohesion.

mixed messages from the english department at such a tiny school! how on earth will i split the difference in the “Real World”?

the smartest kid (by FAR) in my math class said today that he thought the second part of the course could be better — he thought that he would have more time to devote, and be able to teach himself the material, since the professor certainly is not. like me, this kid has an enormous project that has grown into an out-of-proportion monster. somehow, my three and a half credits have grown into twenty.

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