"The Renaissance is a period characterized by many scholars as a critique of medieval and religious..."

Is this a blind item we are supposed to guess at?

Colombia's primary exports are coffee, wheat and sugar. It is located in South America.

My senior thesis on morality in literature, in which I explore the virtues and vices of Journey to the End of the Night, The Tin Drum, and American Psycho, is a steaming pile of offal.

P.S.: I got an A.

Many times in life, as in literature, people experience conflicts.

I hate it when the liberal professoriate scholaticizes my historiography.

The best is the way she concludes her thesis:
"...but then I woke up; it was all a dream."

(actually had a university classmate in a creative writing course use that back in tha day)

Getting an A in grad school is easy. Just write all your papers as if they're translated from the French.

Pedantic wanker.

The Renaissance came after the Middle Ages, which was a period of time that came after the Ancient Times and before the Renaissance, which put it in the middle. (Hence the name.)

If someone were to dig up my old college papers I would die of embarrassment.

So are you saying a degree in comparative lit = "Would you like fries with that, sir?"

@Sarcastro: I replied to your question (privately) but since the comment system's been wonky lately I don't know if it went through. If not, let me know.

@scroll_lock: Bless you!! It HAS been wonky lately. I thought it was just me.

It's almost as embarrassing as using a student newspaper to air individual attacks against individual people. What a miserable thing to do. That editor should be shitcanned.

Upper crust kids are miserable specimens.

Finally. Someone wrote something about Dartmouth.

Wow. Let's give Priya the benefit of the doubt and regard her take on medieval scholasticism as a performance art-y comment upon the main character of Martin Amis' dear old Pa's masterwork "Lucky Jim":

"Michie knew a lot, or seemed to,which was as bad. One of the things he knew, or seemed to, was what scholasticism was. Dixon read, heard, and even used the word a dozen times a day without knowing, though he seemed to. But he saw clearly that he wouldn't be able to go on seeming to know the meaning of this and a hundred such words while Michie was there questioning, discussing, and arguing about them."

Weston, shut your Dartmouth.

Took a history of jazz course once. Some stipulation required an essay component, but our prof didn't feel like reading them all so he assigned a very loose topic of "something you like or dislike about jazz".

The resulting opus, "Fuck You, Kenny Gorelick!", was the nexus of my education.

universities don't typically take a job candidate's senior thesis into account during hiring. considering that the thesis in question is written -- at minimum -- 6 years prior to the appointment.

this is like criticizing a doctor's competence because he got a "c" in dissecting the frog.

I thought the Renaissance was a period governed by a supreme executive whose authority was conferred by a watery tart who threw a sword at him.

Hey I like Montaigne. I like brevity. She better not be talking shit about him.

The editor is a Class A jerk. He quotes a spelling mistake from her old thesis (written B4 spell-check) and then the rest of the content of HER thesis is told through HIS paraphrasing. I don't believe a word he says. And his tone & language "liberal fanatics" is ugly. Now I'm starting to believe her.

@minx: Yes, let us defend a barking mad “postmodernist” by calling for a return to the primary sources—

—but first: Is there a distinction between mimesis and diegesis? Are there such things as facts? Can the meaning of the text be fixed such that we may dispute his paraphrasing?

I would never hire someone from a college paper who wrote like this.

@KristaJulieva: I love that book so much.

@minou: No, this is like criticizing a doctor's competence because when she was supposed to dissect a frog she started choking on her textbook, which she had inexplicably stuffed into her mouth, and the proceeded to incur a concussion from slipping on the frog corpse in her flailing about. That's how dumb that first sentence is. As a history major I feel borderline qualified to pronounce upon that.

@Colonel Mustard: I saw that coming, and it still made me laugh.

"Over a decade before she taught at Dartmouth, Priya Venkatesan was an undergraduate at this beloved institution;"

Shut up, college.

@musicmope: What's happening in your avatar? That horse is stuffed. Right?

"Unfortunately the lame-o editorialist at the Dartmouth Review doesn't except much of it."

Wait, I'm really confused. You mean "accept," right?

She's fat in a jabba the hut way, body by jello. I think it's one of the one's here who gets agitated talking about fat, the jiggly, the cellulite (not so elite), and then praises someone like tnuc online. When will you execute me? Ketch me, ya fatties! I'm only running and hopping to keep from sliding on your greasy sweat and slobber. You have been too slow so far and I've tried! I guess you're slow due to your hefty girth.

@LeGagneur: Probably "excerpt."

@BunnySoup: Actually, I'd guess they're staying away due to the clear, present danger of the crazy.

*shudders*

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Crazy is a trigger word for me.

@Lazy Susan:
And not only the horse.
Thank you, I'll be here all week...