“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the white board markers herself.”
Virginia Woolf
“Student evaluations warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
Haruki Murakami
“Happy English departments are all alike; every unhappy English department is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Fail all the band kids you want, if you can get ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to fail a student athlete.”
Harper Lee
“…the oldest and most devastating pain there is: not the pain of the Skype interview, but the remembrance of it.”
Toni Morrison
“Please, sir, I want some more money on my printing quota.”
Charles Dickens
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single adjunct in possession of a good CV, must be in want of a tenured position.”
Jane Austen
“Hand to hand is how it will be, a life and death fight against the plagiarist and he whom death bears off shall submit to the judgment of the Dean.”
The Beowulf Poet
“The students outside looked from tenure-track faculty to adjunct, and from adjunct to tenure-track faculty, and from tenure-track faculty to adjunct again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
George Orwell