The Boast Post

[Weisinheimer]

I just passed the Biology CLEP test!! I'm so psyched.

[SleepyWitch]

congrats Weisinheimer.

er, what is CLEP?

[Weisinheimer]

CLEP stands for college level examination program. Basically, instead of actually taking a class, you can pass a test to demonstrate that you know the material, and get college credit for it as if you had taken the course.

[Virgil]

Good for you Weisy. Looks like Larry brought you some luck. Oh you didn't need luck.

[Weisinheimer]

Haha, he was in my purse as I was taking it. That must've been how I passed, cuz it seemed like I was guessing for most of the questions.

[SleepyWitch]

CLEP stands for college level examination program. Basically, instead of actually taking a class, you can pass a test to demonstrate that you know the material, and get college credit for it as if you had taken the course.

I see. sounds cool

guess who's got an A in Teaching Geography (30 mins oral exam)?
bah, I'm really knackered now but I've got Physical Geography (40 mins) on Tuesday next week, so I really need to cram.

[Weisinheimer]

congrats, Sleepy. Good luck with the upcoming exam. I'm sure you'll do great.

[Domer121]

I just got 195 out of 200 on my english formal paper.!! the average was 160!!! Im so happy~~!!!! I pulled the curve up!!!

[Weisinheimer]

Awesome job, Domer!

[Bitterfly]

And I gave my first post-graduate literature class today, and it didn't go too badly!! Horribly stressful but ultimately exciting!

[andave_ya]

And I gave my first post-graduate literature class today, and it didn't go too badly!! Horribly stressful but ultimately exciting!

THAT is COOL. I am hoping to teach literature at a university sometime in the future

I've spent over three hours almost all in one go on a single scholarship.

[Petrarch's Love]

And I gave my first post-graduate literature class today, and it didn't go too badly!! Horribly stressful but ultimately exciting!

Sounds amazing, Bitterfly. I'm still getting a handle on undergraduate teaching (still a doctoral candidate near the start of the dissertation process), but it must be exciting when you get to lead graduate level discussion. How is it that it was your first class today, though? Our term is almost done. Is it some sort of short seminar or on an unusual schedule? What's your field or time period of literary interest? I'm a Renaissance woman, myself, as my screen name suggests.

[Bitterfly]

I'm in a slightly different system, which would be hard and long to explain, ha ha! My usual teaching is at undergraduate level, mostly literature and translation, but not specialised since the curriculum changes every year. This is the contrary of boring but keeps me working so much that I had to delay the post-grad class until now (it runs on till March)!

I don't consider myself a specialist of any particular period, but rather a dilettante in and exploratory amateur of many, even though my MAs (? not sure of the equivalent) were about authors of the Romantic and Modernist periods (my faves, in British literature). I still have a LOT to learn and read... And I haven't started on a doctorate yet (they accept you at university level here with a different type of post-graduate diploma), but I'll probably want to work on someone from that period again (or maybe from the Victorian era... see, that's the problem, too much to choose from!).

I noticed you were Renaissance, but I know practically nothing about that period (apart from Shakespeare, whom I've had to give classes on - and even then, not much).

The older the students are the nicer it is, because they actually understand everything you say! But it's hard because they've obviously more demanding.

[grace86]

Haha not a graduate student or anything, still working on my undergrad courses, but I just got a 99/100 on my ethnography midterm exam! My professor is in the top of the field on Mayan archaeology so I really feel like I accomplished something! I studied so hard for it!

I also got a B on my structural and descriptive linguistics midterm, which is crazy because I thought I was gonna fail that one for sure. Another one that I did major studying for!

[kratsayra]

And I gave my first post-graduate literature class today, and it didn't go too badly!! Horribly stressful but ultimately exciting!

That sounds really exciting! I'm a PhD student teaching undergraduate courses like Petrarch. I often wonder what it will be like, as a starting professor, to actually teach grad (or post-grad, depending on your location) courses. Sounds kind of daunting, so congratulations.

Haha not a graduate student or anything, still working on my undergrad courses, but I just got a 99/100 on my ethnography midterm exam! My professor is in the top of the field on Mayan archaeology so I really feel like I accomplished something! I studied so hard for it!

I also got a B on my structural and descriptive linguistics midterm, which is crazy because I thought I was gonna fail that one for sure. Another one that I did major studying for!

Good job on your midterms. It's also nice to hear a student happy with a B that they've worked hard for.