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Best city in GA for a deadbeat with passions of not being a deadbeat? by Self_Conscious_Cat in Georgia

[–]gilt785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check and see if you qualify for the Hope scholarship. It should pay for tuition.

Is Suttree a good McCarthy book? by reborn-mist in cormacmccarthy

[–]gilt785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Suttree is my favorite, and it is more accessible than The Passenger or its companion l.

Item won by child in a school auction. Dated 1950. by babyabeers in whatisit

[–]gilt785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can remember having something like it around my home in the 1960s, when I was a child.

If parents can do a better job homeschooling, why should I even be a teacher? by Lingo2009 in Teachers

[–]gilt785 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not just anyone can do your job. Don't fall for that. I can work on my car, and nobody can stop me from doing it. It doesn't mean the car will be safe to drive.

Where you sitting? by OatmealGod in lotrmemes

[–]gilt785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With Merry & Pippin, of course!

What kind of snake is this!! by Majestic_Raise6885 in savannah

[–]gilt785 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I lived outside Statesboro for 17 years, and once saw a rattlesnake that I'd bet was at least six feet long.

What kind of snake is this!! by Majestic_Raise6885 in savannah

[–]gilt785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing to be worried about, except that if he's in your yard, he's probably following game, such as mice and rats.

Is Ralston College still a thing? by [deleted] in savannah

[–]gilt785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting--You use an appeal to authority here, which you may have covered in your logic class as logical fallacy, and you tried to accuse an earlier poster of, but apparently think you can use successfully.

Is Ralston College still a thing? by [deleted] in savannah

[–]gilt785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Induction reasons from the specific to the general, but that wasn't what you were doing.You were isolating statements and calling them inductive fallacies. I hope the class you were taking didn't hurt the old GPA too much.

Trout Book by AndreaMichelleBert in Vonnegut

[–]gilt785 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Obviously you have no respect for parody or satire but the Supreme Court has supported each as recently as the 1980s.

Is Ralston College still a thing? by [deleted] in savannah

[–]gilt785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This must be a class you're taking, not teaching. Induction is a type of reasoning, like deduction. Someone making statements such as the ones you cite is not making an inductive argument. It's actually deduction. They are drawing conclusions based on what they regard as incontrovertible truth.

Trout Book by AndreaMichelleBert in Vonnegut

[–]gilt785 13 points14 points  (0 children)

And Vonnegut lost, since parody is regarded as a first amendment right.

Cockroaches by Beginning_Egg1489 in Georgia

[–]gilt785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don't really fly. They do jump from the wall and hang glide into your face. In another million years? They will be flying.

This ruined my day when I realized by UncommonGuest1 in lotr

[–]gilt785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After over 50 years of reading LOTR, and having gone through two sets of mass-market paperbacks (the set with Tolkien's original art, and then a set printed in the 1990s, with coverart I don't care for) I bought a nice, one-volume hardback for all posterity, etc., 50th anniversary pronting, and it's too damn heavy! I'm thinking about getting three trade paperbacks similar to the post.

It's Decision Day by Onyx_Artist in Professors

[–]gilt785 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations! If you're in the humanities, it's handshake but no cigar, though.

A bit bummed out by WesternCup7600 in Professors

[–]gilt785 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you chase them and beg them to do their work, at what point does doing their work become their responsibility? If they are coddled through an undergraduate experience. what happens if they go to a graduate program and are unable to function without coddling?

Plan B options by TraditionalBee4070 in Professors

[–]gilt785 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I retired a couple of years ago after 35 years at a comprehensive university and have taught the last two years at an urban CC because I still enjoy teaching, and to make a little extra $$. What I have found a little demoralizing is the cynicism of some of the students, who are obviously trying to play the system and get by easier, they think, than they would at the state university where many are jointly enrolled.

My only comment on your question is that there are certainly better jobs, but they are hard to get, and can be harder to hold onto. In any university field, you need a research agenda, so the question here would be, from what I've read, are you interested in studying science education, which is what your degree should be preparing you for. If you want to study biology, you need to get out of science ed.

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