tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post116335451014653053..comments2023-10-19T07:54:32.841-04:00Comments on Quod She: Who knew?Dr. Viragohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163917866894617832006-11-19T01:31:00.000-05:002006-11-19T01:31:00.000-05:00Yes, I do suggest the imaginary summer house in Fi...Yes, I do suggest the imaginary summer house in Finland itself - after all, no black flies there. And whence better to study the natives, than from the comfort of your own little imaginary cottage on the shore of a lake, while your imaginary salmon catch is simmering on a fire for a wonderful imaginary summer dinner!Anniinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293294133521209973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163865677793664012006-11-18T11:01:00.000-05:002006-11-18T11:01:00.000-05:00Anniina, the scholarship to do Finnish studies is ...Anniina, the scholarship to do Finnish studies is hilarious! Yeah, why *would* you go all the way to the middle of nowhere to do that when you were already in Finland! Btw, in my original post I should've said that Finlandia was the only university *in the US* founded by Finns (but I'm sure you figured that out). Anyway, I think it's cool. If I were independently wealthy and had a summer place on the Upper Peninsula, I'd totally take Finnish Studies courses there every summer! The UP in the summer is *gorgeous* but pretty remote. And then there are the black flies...Hmm...maybe better to get the imaginary summer house in Finland itself!Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163821531966960802006-11-17T22:45:00.000-05:002006-11-17T22:45:00.000-05:00Yup, we Finns do get around. When I was looking a...Yup, we Finns do get around. When I was looking at colleges in the US, I got a scholarship from some place in the middle of a field 3 hrs from any major town, for Finnish studies... and I was thinking... OK, I'd stay in Finland, if I wanted to study that, heheh. But I guess it's cool that someone wants to study us - after all, we do have the Kalevala, Tolkien based Elvish on Finnish, and.... Santa Clause lives in Finland. Man, I'm sounding like a commercial. Weird, since I prefer living in the US :PAnniinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293294133521209973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163456079027604862006-11-13T17:14:00.000-05:002006-11-13T17:14:00.000-05:00Ah, Pasties! There's a version of the South Englis...Ah, Pasties! There's a version of the South English Legendary that has the story of Nicholas and the Three Clerks (summary: three clerks stay the night at a butcher's. During the night, at the bidding of his wife (Lady MacBeth avant le lettre?), the butcher murders them, steals what little they have, and, in this version, turns them into pasties.<BR/><BR/>So, Nicholas shows up, "and axed of him what he hadde, and what to sillin wolde.” The butcher “answered baldeliche, pasties and pyes he hadde / and good chep." I love it. It reminds me of that old Hitchcock program where a woman murders her husband by battering him with a frozen roast. She then cooks the roast and feeds it to the cops when they show up to investigate. (eventually, of course, Nicholas resurrects the clerks)Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163453937283708222006-11-13T16:38:00.000-05:002006-11-13T16:38:00.000-05:00Maybe that's why we get the students we do -- they...Maybe that's why we get the students we do -- they're testing the waters, seeing if they *are* grad school material, which is a good use of our 2-year program, I think. Our majors, by the way, are very similar to yours -- a little afraid they're not cut out for it. It's kind of a bummer, really.Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163453284889984732006-11-13T16:28:00.000-05:002006-11-13T16:28:00.000-05:00Now that I know where I am (at a SLAC, not a TLAC)...Now that I know where I am (at a SLAC, not a TLAC), I'll make a stab at responding to your question: it would be interesting to see some statistics on whether students from tiny colleges have trouble getting into PhD programs, but I know it is difficult to get my students to even think about graduate programs. Two years ago we had thirteen senior English majors and four of them went right into grad school, but that was an anomaly; most years only one or two English majors apply to grad schools, mostly to M.A. programs. Our best and brightest students are often the first in their families to go to college, and they just don't see grad school as a possibility. Those who do apply do not always get into their top-choice schools, but they generally get admitted somewhere, and they do well, but most of our majors just don't see themselves as grad school material. I wish I knew why.Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05412883073330413390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163451952361762362006-11-13T16:05:00.000-05:002006-11-13T16:05:00.000-05:00Oh, and thanks for telling me how to say Rio Grand...Oh, and thanks for telling me how to say Rio Grande the Ohio way, in case I'm ever there!! (Now I totally want to go to see the flagship Bob Evans *and* to impress people with proper pronunciation of the town!)Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163451872245938302006-11-13T16:04:00.000-05:002006-11-13T16:04:00.000-05:00I say, if all your humanities profs are in *one* d...I say, if all your humanities profs are in *one* department, and that consists of three English profs, a Philosophy prof, and one Spanish prof, you're a TLAC. Which is not to say that a TLAC is a terrible thing to be! I just found it kind of amazing.<BR/><BR/>And apologies if I sounded condescending. I don't mean to be. Clearly, my experiences all come from much bigger places (indeed, where I work now -- an urban comprehensive -- is the smallest uni I've ever been).<BR/><BR/>Tell me something -- am I right in assuming that a student from a tiny college would have a more difficult time getting into a PhD program? Since so many of our students come to our MA program from such places, I feel they at least think they need to fill some gaps. What do you think?Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163450911903825002006-11-13T15:48:00.000-05:002006-11-13T15:48:00.000-05:00Rio Grande is a great place to visit if you like b...Rio Grande is a great place to visit if you like biscuits, antique farm equipment, and scenery, but before you go, make sure you know how to pronounce it the southern Ohio way: it's RYE-uh grand.<BR/><BR/>And while we're on the subject of nomenclature, where would you put the border between SLACs and TLACs? I fear we're on the cusp.Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05412883073330413390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163428220769399862006-11-13T09:30:00.000-05:002006-11-13T09:30:00.000-05:00Thanks, Anon, for justifying my confusion! :)And t...Thanks, Anon, for justifying my confusion! :)<BR/><BR/>And trillwing -- maybe we should make up a song for your pasty-wearing, dancing miners, along the lines of the Lumberjack Song. :)Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163426277840022002006-11-13T08:57:00.000-05:002006-11-13T08:57:00.000-05:00Sorry - but the pasty IS a traditional welsh food ...Sorry - but the pasty IS a traditional welsh food too... recipe here:<BR/><BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/4841110.stmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163391176698135242006-11-12T23:12:00.000-05:002006-11-12T23:12:00.000-05:00Seriously, I saw your "ETA" about miners and pasti...Seriously, I saw your "ETA" about miners and pasties and imagined them all in a chorus line, bare-chested, wearing the other kind of pasties.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for that image. ;)<BR/><BR/>I wish we had gourmet cooking at my high school. I got stuck in yearbook, writing the damn obituaries. A souffle would have been much more fun to create.Leslie M-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02434392840359276805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163379236600704132006-11-12T19:53:00.000-05:002006-11-12T19:53:00.000-05:00And Rob -- OK, now I *really* have to visit Rio Gr...And Rob -- OK, now I *really* have to visit Rio Grande!Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163371868257093742006-11-12T17:51:00.000-05:002006-11-12T17:51:00.000-05:00The CP: Yes, you are right. I have conflated two...The CP: Yes, you are right. I have conflated two kinds of mining and two different British Celtic peoples. My mistake! Yikes! I'll edit the main entry.<BR/><BR/>That said, the pasty has seemed to migrate all over Great Britain.Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163371483003968062006-11-12T17:44:00.000-05:002006-11-12T17:44:00.000-05:00Re: Welsh in Southern Ohio - who knew??Re: Welsh in Southern Ohio - who knew??Tirunculahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16788199657297216288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163369580099141442006-11-12T17:13:00.000-05:002006-11-12T17:13:00.000-05:00Rio Grande, OH, was also the home of resturanteur ...Rio Grande, OH, was also the home of resturanteur Bob Evans. I've eaten in the flagship Bob Evans there. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15231380.post-1163366884664214542006-11-12T16:28:00.000-05:002006-11-12T16:28:00.000-05:00Dr. V.,Your pasty comments are interesting, althou...Dr. V.,<BR/>Your pasty comments are interesting, although I am a little confused by them. <BR/><BR/>The pasty is actually mostly associated with the area of Britain known as Cornwall, rather than Wales. It was Cornish miners who dug for tin, rather than coal (as the Welsh do, or did), who first developed pasties.<BR/><BR/>The CPThe Combat Philosopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06533397644493139591noreply@blogger.com