Coming to the end (almost) of my first week of iSchool classes, I can't help but feel like I'm in a slightly different universe. Left my home in the English department and started a new journey through the world of information science. Today, my seminar prof (who actually has this PhD in English Lit) only emphasized that fact. While speaking about the start of our quarter, he mentioned that the MLIS program is more similar to the social sciences instead of the humanities. In English or History courses, you mostly conduct "research" by studying and examining and analyzing literature or other texts (I know this only too well). According to my professor: in information science "if you want to find out shit, you ask people."
While entertaining, this statement cannot be entirely true, as I have an enormous amount of reading assigned for this evening.
A few other choice Trent-isms (my professor):
- "They're going to trump your geek, man." - while telling us not to worry about being too geeky. In the MLIS program, you are surrounded by fellow nerds and geeks alike. And there will always be someone geekier than you.
- "I'll wear anything... as long as it's not illegal. Or too degrading."
- "Erase the f***er!" - apparently the first thing you do when you walk into a classroom to teach or give a presentation is: erase the board behind you.
- "It is not unlike a dog peeing on a fire hydrant." - when you erase the board, you are setting up your own space for teaching and presenting.
- "Does anyone have a tomato?" - apparently we are allowed to throw tomatoes at him. Not our classmates though (this is especially relieving, since the entire class is taught by my fellow students).
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