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They grow up so fast!
1 day ago
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Looks to me like your professor of Lesbian Studies has a picture of my Professor Sawyer on the corner of her desk. What could this mean?
Another awesome contribution. Clearly, the rest of us need to hire sound technicians to catch up with your masterful use of effects. (Laugh, laugh, clap, clap.)
I'm glad you're putting xtranormal to good use.
This reminds me of how much I always loved it when students felt the need to come out as straight during Queer Studies classes. And by "loved it," I mean "felt like it was an infuriating waste of time."
Oh dear. Are entirely fictitious students still having those sorts of totally hypothetical conversations with someone who is clearly not you?
In my youthful innocence, I sorta thought the coming-out-as-straight thing was a weird blue-moon twilight zoney sorta thing.
Students are needy. Get over it! Sure it’s unattractive and all, but we’re very young and want validation. At Zenith this means validation of our identities as people who get good grades, and validation of the new identities we’re forming as people living away from our overprotective baby boomer parents for the first time.
I’m sure it’s bizarre to have people accuse you of favoritism and go to you for counseling about their sexual identity. But it’s equally bizarre for us to have our initiation into adulthood come through the modern university. It’s probably immature, but students who have gotten to Zenith look up to their professors and put them in a quasi-parental role, as they did with their high school teachers. It takes a few office hour sessions like the one you portray—quite accurately, I’m embarassed to admit—for us to realize that professors are highly-specialized, career-oriented bureaucrats (that they have their own lives).
I can't believe the sweatervest-wearing student extorted an A-! OUTRAGE!!111!!111!!!
"not even a political lesbian!"
Bwwahaaahaaa!!!
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