CUNY writes back to the New Yorker! The English major isn’t dying - the state is trying to kill it. And English today is a beautiful necessary practice that should thrive, and my colleagues are doing the most inspirational work. https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/end-english-major-hardly #newyorker #endofenglish #englishmajor #cuny #GraduateCenter

#Weather is all about the #variance (so is the #StockMarket, but I digress). Sure #trends are important, but relating one time period to a long term #mean is misleading AND annoying. Yet, our #EnglishMajor overlords in #journalism, as usual, have no clue, so we get https://apnews.com/article/snow-winter-east-coast-climate-warm-0e20875c070df8c57a5f04f29749b9d0

Reading the #NewYorker feature on the alleged decline of the #EnglishMajor and this bit made me laugh:

“Imagine if you had a voice assistant that could write code for you, and you said, ‘Hey, Alexa, build me a Web site to sell shoes,’ ” Sanjay Sarma, a professor of mechanical engineering at M.I.T., told me on the phone. (Immediately, he pulled the receiver away to rebuff a device in the room: “Shut up, Alexa! No! No!”)

#IWasAnEnglishMajor is a cool hashtag popping off on Twitter. Maybe it could see some love here?

Here's where is seems to have started:

"I know I don’t have enough followers to create a hugely trending situation,but it wld be really great if everyone who was an English major(in whatever walk of life now—which it wld be great to note)—just “came out”on #iwasanenglishmajor
It’s one of the greatest well-kept secrets."

https://twitter.com/jorie_graham/status/1630315623233339392

#LiberalArts #Humanities #EnglishMajor

Many #scholars are beginning to wonder what it will be like when a generation of #students #graduates from #college with less education of the human past than ever before. #highereducation #humanities #EnglishDepartment #Englishmajor #historymajor https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major

I walked into the math student lounge and five of them were preparing to play Bananagrams ("the word game for people who think Boggle takes too long"). They foolishly invited me to join.

In the first game, nobody else even called Peel.

I also won the second game. Not the same kind of shutout, but this time I was playing with one hand.

#BoardGames #Bananagrams #ComeAtMe #BringIt #EnglishMajor

🧵 But it’s more than that. I worked in the “adult” world before. I hated it. That’s why I went back to school. I never felt I belonged there either. It’s also the work I’m doing. It’s like my mind was built to do it. I have not felt this good in probably my whole life. Now I just have to stay focused enough to finish my homework and get out of here and hopefully find a local tech writing job. Seriously, this is the most fun I’ve had at school. :)

#techwriting #writer #englishmajor #classof2023

Went to an English department event tonight that featured a former student who became a librarian. I honestly only went for the free pizza. Now I’m thinking an online MLIS is the most tempting thing I’ve heard of since “there will be free pizza.”

#EnglishMajor #librarianship #classof2023 #gradschool

I’m very excited because I think I found a source that may have inspired #Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146! I need to do a bit of research, and I’ll write about it on my website soon!

::flailing in #Englishmajor::

I just noticed that if you want to shorten the term ‘brainstorming,’ the easiest way is ‘BS.’ This feels like something I must have known before “the fall.” It’s still cracking me up.

#EnglishMajor #jokesonme

Will be in the office today. It’ll be nice to get my mind warmed back up to the campus before Monday. Especially since this is it, my last term. Then I have to renew my identity, I suppose. I started school shortly after my divorce and this has become who I am. I rebuilt myself through education. I’m a little nervous about life out there in the real world. I was there for 30 years. I don’t recall it fondly.

#graduating #finalterm #classof2023 #englishmajor

@jadarling Do you mean "nerdle?" That's a maths game. But, I would love a bigger word game than wordle. #englishmajor #wordphile Is that a thing? :D

@msjennmo @academicchatter @phdstudents @academicsunite @phdlife Your English prof can tell if you use two spaces and will mark you down for it. :) #englishmajor

People wonder why having a background as an English major helps with IT and cybersecurity. I'm here to tell you that IT is nothing if it isn't defining terms and communicating clearly. #IT #infosec #englishmajor

Uh—We don’t talk enough about #NathanielHawthorne joining a hippie, (aka #transcendentalist ) colony and literally shoveling shit to save money so that he could marry his beloved Sophia Peabody.

#litnerd #englishmajor #americanromantics #americanliterature #literature #TIL

Saturday is always chore day. That’s my excuse today for why the apartment looks worse than during finals week. #collegemom #classof2023 #englishmajor

#Introduction
Music enthusiast and #Dad to 2 little whirlwinds, husband to a lovely #geeky wife.

#EnglishMajor .
Everything from #Amm to #Zappa. My heroes are FZ and #MilesDavis. I am learning #bass

#FreeImprovisation, #Jazz, #Metal, #Jamband. I hope to have fun here.

Second account.

Daughter got her first #tattoo today. I love it even more seeing the #poem that inspired it! #EnglishMajor 🧡🧡

#Introduction
Music enthiast and #Dad to 2 little whirlwinds. #EnglishMajor .
Everything from #Amm to #Zappa. My heroes are FZ and #MilesDavis. I am learning #bass

#FreeImprovisation, #Jazz, #Metal, #Jamband. I hope to have fun here.

My sister gave me some Shakespearean Insult Bandages but they should be named BARD-AIDs 🩹 #Shakespeare #EnglishMajor #EnglishLit