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3.2%
That’s the percentage of my 101 students (mostly “knobs” — i.e., freshmen) who followed the explicit written and oral instructions on how to turn in their papers to me today.
Three. Point. Two.
The other 96.8% just lost a full letter grade.
Plus, in my second 101 section this morning, a full 40% had lost or forgotten the [...]

I don’t know how the cadets feel about it, but I’m excited. And they seem a decent lot — not that one can tell much in the first couple weeks.
I’m teaching three official courses this term: two sections of 101 (MWF 10-11 and 11-12) and one of 203 (MWF 9-10). I’m also teaching a [...]

Melissa Smith has had her paper “At Home and Abroad: Éowyn’s Two-fold Figuring as War Bride in The Lord of the Rings” accepted for publication in Mythlore. This paper was written for my course “Tolkien: The Myth and Epic of Middle-Earth” at the University of Rochester in the Spring of 2006.
Matthew Gryder had his essay [...]