Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Yuck. Sitting through another of Beki's classes where she spends another half period going off about the IRB and the letters we have to write to get permission to observe at our sites. This is the stupidest thing. And then she goes on to talk about how Lucent didn't have an IRB and that people could be blazingly unethical. Maybe they actually trust people to do right thing instead of uniformly giving everyone a hard time. Academia really sucks.
Quote: "Remember Grinter, it's classes not therapy".
During break, went to Norcross high school. Pretty much kept my mouth shut. All the kids wanted to go to Ga State, Kennesaw or Tech except for one ambitious girl who wanted to go to Stanford. She got asked where she was from (Cuban) and if she spoke Spanish (ducked her head and said "kind of" ) so there was almost kind of a challenge to see if she was like the rest. Most seemed to be fairly recent immigrants. Another girl was insistent that she wanted to go to UGa since they were still a little racist in their acceptance of Hispanics. Kind of bad to be going in with that attitude, and UGa isn't all that anyway with its mega-auditorium classes. I was really tempted to suggest private schools like Emory or Wofford that might have better financial aid and more support with smaller classes. But as usual I just stayed back and lost my chance to talk. When they asked me where I was from I just said "North Carolina" and they momentarily looked confused. So definitely not the same group as the one from this weekend.
So I went back to the mural painting on Sunday. We had already discussed how the mostly U.S. born felt estranged from the international student community that predominated in SHPE. There was so much anger and negativity--chains, cultural prisons, "I'm already forgetting who I am". The militant Chicano from Darthmouth got into argument with wife--he was insisting that international Latinos looked down on U.S. born Latinos. She disagreed and finally left the room and he asked me if he was too insistent. Kind of wish I had supported her--I think he was remembering international students, but most recent immigrants or people left behind are in a more dire economic strait and not one for looking down on us.
Quote: "Remember Grinter, it's classes not therapy".
During break, went to Norcross high school. Pretty much kept my mouth shut. All the kids wanted to go to Ga State, Kennesaw or Tech except for one ambitious girl who wanted to go to Stanford. She got asked where she was from (Cuban) and if she spoke Spanish (ducked her head and said "kind of" ) so there was almost kind of a challenge to see if she was like the rest. Most seemed to be fairly recent immigrants. Another girl was insistent that she wanted to go to UGa since they were still a little racist in their acceptance of Hispanics. Kind of bad to be going in with that attitude, and UGa isn't all that anyway with its mega-auditorium classes. I was really tempted to suggest private schools like Emory or Wofford that might have better financial aid and more support with smaller classes. But as usual I just stayed back and lost my chance to talk. When they asked me where I was from I just said "North Carolina" and they momentarily looked confused. So definitely not the same group as the one from this weekend.
So I went back to the mural painting on Sunday. We had already discussed how the mostly U.S. born felt estranged from the international student community that predominated in SHPE. There was so much anger and negativity--chains, cultural prisons, "I'm already forgetting who I am". The militant Chicano from Darthmouth got into argument with wife--he was insisting that international Latinos looked down on U.S. born Latinos. She disagreed and finally left the room and he asked me if he was too insistent. Kind of wish I had supported her--I think he was remembering international students, but most recent immigrants or people left behind are in a more dire economic strait and not one for looking down on us.
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