December 2008
2 posts
Day 1
No cash was essentially no problem. Although I had to high tail it to the grocery store rather than dash to the convience store around the corner. This makes me think that this whole situation might look different if I didn’t have a car. Here comes day 2!
Experiment time!
One thing I loved about college and grad school is that I was taught and encouraged to experiment. So - I’m taking a major fuck up and turning it into an experiment:
I was really lazy about changing my address after my last move. During this lazy time my debit card expired. I live about 2 hours from my bank - so I called them today and they told me they’d send a new one. That process...
November 2008
4 posts
Ugh, I'm Hungry
So back at Yale I planned to do a experiment, here were the stipulations:
1. I would only eat food available at Yale events. I was permitted to take and store food. I was not allowed to utilize the dining halls.
2. I did not have to attend all events from which I took food.
3. I was able purchase only coffee (it was grad school after all)
4. I was to keep track of my caloric intake
A...
Type of College and Income Outcomes
It’s really difficult to find data on income by type of college. It would really be so much easier to find this information if I were at Yale or Mount Holyoke right now. I am still working on finding out this information about type of college and income and career success - BUT the experience of not finding it and then longing for the academy reminds me how privileged I am to have the...
October 2008
4 posts
$$$
This article: http://consumerist.com/5069146/25-most-expensive-colleges-for-2008+2009
which details the most expensive schools in the country got me thinking (in the interest of full disclosure - my alma mater is #21). How much should college cost? My immeadiate answer is that it should be free (like it is in many very academically sucessful nations around the world). Lord knows...
Thinker and a Doer
So here’s the sitch:
I was priviledged enough to go to Mount Holyoke College for my BA - I then moved onto a PhD Program at Yale. I found Yale to be oppressive for a number of reasons - not only is it deeply sexist, racist, heterosexist, classist, ableist - but it actively claims not to be as much. That stated - Yale treats New Haven like shit. That is and will continue to be a major...
College taught me to find powerful quotes:
Like this one from Dr. King
if our nation can spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam [or Iraq or Iran, or wherever the fuck the government feels like bombing], and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet right here on earth…
I might just have to become a...
Community College Part 1 - Where's the Jusitce?
Community colleges are supposed to be an investment in communities that specifically serve folks who otherwise would not have access to college. Why then isn’t the government more concerned with meeting the needs of communities. Why aren’t community colleges about empowerment? Why isn’t justice apart of their mission? Why aren’t people educated about their rights? Community...
September 2008
2 posts
Yale
As I was sitting in a meeting yesterday, I thought to myself, “why am I defensive about my intelligence and why do I always associate college with intelligence?” Here’s an example: I think to myself - “wow I’m such a sellout - I went to YALE,” but I’ll also think “I went to Yale and Mount Holyoke for G-d’s sake - I think I can faciliate a...
College
So after a lovely brunch with a college friend of mine - I got to thinking - what (aside from the enormous social and cultural capital it holds) is the real practical importance of college. What about it makes me do by job better (or worse) and what does all this have to do with class privilege? This tumblr will be a reflection on these ideas. Thanks for reading!