I learned today that the Summer Scholars<\/a> course that I was gonna teach with Paula next month died for lack of people signing up. I’m disappointed because it would have been a cool subject and a cool group of students and a blast teaching with Paula, but I’m also somewhat relieved to know that I get those two weeks of my life back. (The students are high school students that live on campus for the two weeks, and we spend a lot<\/em> of time with them while they’re here.) The summer already feels like it’s half over, and the to-do list just hasn’t shrunk much…<\/p>\n

Our course was going to be on dissent and censorship. I think it would have been really interesting, but it’s a somewhat difficult topic to present and sell to high school students. Paula and I keen to try again next year, and hopefully we’ll figure out how to draw in more people then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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