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January 29, 2008
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so, you teach political sorts of things to undergrads: http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2008/02/best-email-ever-prof-edition.html
Posted by: dave.s. | February 03, 2008 at 04:35 PM
An old grad school mate used to work at a university library. His pet peeve was students who were looking for Genesis (also for class reading) and didn't know how to find it in the library.
Posted by: Amy P | February 03, 2008 at 09:08 PM
yuk. sent that link to a bunch of my buddies.
Posted by: laura | February 03, 2008 at 09:54 PM
This rather undercuts the position that it doesn't matter if you don't know stuff, since you can always look it up. Firstly, you may not know what you don't know. Secondly, lack of basic general knowledge makes a lousy impression on people who do know the stuff.
Posted by: Amy P | February 04, 2008 at 09:17 AM