Tilton’s Laws of the Academic Universe

Note: This list represents the first fifty rules and represents the list that is on my office door. Technology fails.*Technology especially fails when you especially need it.If this was easy, anybody could do it.We are all adults. You do not need to ask for the “hall pass” to go out.Frustration...

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Rule #9

My office door has a multitude of signs, notices, and other documents of various interest and concerns. The text in particular that causes the most reading is a pair of papers called "Tilton's Laws of the Academic Universe." This document has been on my office door since I taught at...

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Wisdomatic

The "Fountain of Wisdom" from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila seems like a good visual metaphor for wisdomatic. (Wikipedia photo/T0p 16) I’m trying to create a new word in the hope that I can make it the Webster’s Word of the Year for 2012. That word is wisdomatic. I’m...

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