Comments on: An academic life punctuated with bullets http://www.starstryder.com/2007/04/17/an-academic-life-punctuated-with-bullets/ Blogging one sidereal day at a time Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:26:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hannah http://www.starstryder.com/2007/04/17/an-academic-life-punctuated-with-bullets/comment-page-1/#comment-29109 Hannah Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:17:27 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/?p=86#comment-29109 I didn't know I did before I read it but I really really really needed to hear that. Thanks. :) You rock. I didn’t know I did before I read it but I really really really needed to hear that. Thanks. :) You rock.

]]> By: An academic life punctuated by bullets, part 2 | Star Stryder http://www.starstryder.com/2007/04/17/an-academic-life-punctuated-with-bullets/comment-page-1/#comment-29089 An academic life punctuated by bullets, part 2 | Star Stryder Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:52:56 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/?p=86#comment-29089 [...] are some titles that should never be reused. This is part 2 of this post I wrote in 2007. This older post is better than this one. Please read the older post [...] [...] are some titles that should never be reused. This is part 2 of this post I wrote in 2007. This older post is better than this one. Please read the older post [...]

]]> By: Nicole http://www.starstryder.com/2007/04/17/an-academic-life-punctuated-with-bullets/comment-page-1/#comment-29088 Nicole Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:39:54 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/?p=86#comment-29088 Oh my gosh, thank you. We need more people in academia to keep this in mind, and not just say, "well I went through it, so should you." Oh my gosh, thank you. We need more people in academia to keep this in mind, and not just say, “well I went through it, so should you.”

]]> By: Brad http://www.starstryder.com/2007/04/17/an-academic-life-punctuated-with-bullets/comment-page-1/#comment-22821 Brad Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:17:14 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/?p=86#comment-22821 They "strive to be more" within their cash cow, owned and exploited by state's quasi-govenmental monopolies. Academic freedom has tanked beneath the CMBR. The professors are frosty, the students have devolved to hyperactive marmosets always on the attack. They figure the staff is there to chump and play games with...many of them anyway. Then there's all the freak shoot'em up. Psychiatric abduction without in loco parentis or conferring of power of attorney from said guardian or next of kin haunts the VA Tech massacre, as well as mysterious held up gun checks and two precursory bomb threats in Blacksberg just like in advance of Trolley Square's Suliman Talovich. Add to that the behavior of BYU toward professor Steven Jones and the profile of American academics has many things to explain for on its own behalf--forget these children they're bilking and running around in circles. They “strive to be more” within their cash cow, owned and exploited by state’s quasi-govenmental monopolies. Academic freedom has tanked beneath the CMBR. The professors are frosty, the students have devolved to hyperactive marmosets always on the attack. They figure the staff is there to chump and play games with…many of them anyway.

Then there’s all the freak shoot’em up.

Psychiatric abduction without in loco parentis or conferring of power of attorney from said guardian or next of kin haunts the VA Tech massacre, as well as mysterious held up gun checks and two precursory bomb threats in Blacksberg just like in advance of Trolley Square’s Suliman Talovich.

Add to that the behavior of BYU toward professor Steven Jones and the profile of American academics has many things to explain for on its own behalf–forget these children they’re bilking and running around in circles.

]]> By: Aaron Jackson http://www.starstryder.com/2007/04/17/an-academic-life-punctuated-with-bullets/comment-page-1/#comment-1097 Aaron Jackson Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:42:48 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/?p=86#comment-1097 Elaina, You may find my blog post, and more importantly the comments about this subject interesting. <a href="http://www.highcaliberguns.com/2007/04/18/five-reasons-to-stop-saying-good-job/" rel="nofollow">Five Reasons To Stop Saying Good Job @ High Caliber Guns</a> Elaina,

You may find my blog post, and more importantly the comments about this subject interesting.

Five Reasons To Stop Saying Good Job @ High Caliber Guns

]]> By: Elaina http://www.starstryder.com/2007/04/17/an-academic-life-punctuated-with-bullets/comment-page-1/#comment-1070 Elaina Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:10:30 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/?p=86#comment-1070 I think this falls in line with Alfie Kohn's 5 Reasons to stop saying "good job" http://www.alfiekohn.com/articles.htm#null I think this falls in line with Alfie Kohn’s 5 Reasons to stop saying “good job”
http://www.alfiekohn.com/articles.htm#null

]]> By: Joanna http://www.starstryder.com/2007/04/17/an-academic-life-punctuated-with-bullets/comment-page-1/#comment-1067 Joanna Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:25:51 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/?p=86#comment-1067 Thank you for this very interesting and insightful post. In the UK as soon as something like this happens the media tends to focus on gun control to the exclusion of all else, and it's really good to have another perspective on this tragic event. When I was an undergrad, I was taught by some brilliant people. But some of them couldn't understand how I and my fellow students couldn't understand what they were trying to teach us. I went from regularly being one of the brightest at school, to having lots of peers who were so much better academically than me, and it was difficult. Subsequently I didn't finish a master's degree (partly because of my supervisor) and that left me depressed, but my family helped me through. Thank you for this very interesting and insightful post. In the UK as soon as something like this happens the media tends to focus on gun control to the exclusion of all else, and it’s really good to have another perspective on this tragic event.

When I was an undergrad, I was taught by some brilliant people. But some of them couldn’t understand how I and my fellow students couldn’t understand what they were trying to teach us. I went from regularly being one of the brightest at school, to having lots of peers who were so much better academically than me, and it was difficult. Subsequently I didn’t finish a master’s degree (partly because of my supervisor) and that left me depressed, but my family helped me through.

]]> By: pamela http://www.starstryder.com/2007/04/17/an-academic-life-punctuated-with-bullets/comment-page-1/#comment-1065 pamela Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:46:40 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/?p=86#comment-1065 Thank you so much for commenting, Aaron. We live in strange times. It sometimes feels that the most beautiful minds of our generation may also be the most broken. I wish I knew why, and I wish I knew how to stop it. All any of us can do is offer support and care, and to be there to catch the falling when their wings break in the turbulent winds of academic and parental pressure fronts. There is an excellent book on the interplay and misdiagnosis of mental disorder in the gifted and Talented. It is called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMisdiagnosis-Diagnoses-Gifted-Children-Adults%2Fdp%2F0910707642%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1176871467%26sr%3D8-1&tag=starstry-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" rel="nofollow">Misdiagnosis And Dual Diagnoses Of Gifted Children And Adults</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=starstry-20&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />. I consider it a must read for anyone working with gifted children and adults. Thank you so much for commenting, Aaron. We live in strange times. It sometimes feels that the most beautiful minds of our generation may also be the most broken. I wish I knew why, and I wish I knew how to stop it. All any of us can do is offer support and care, and to be there to catch the falling when their wings break in the turbulent winds of academic and parental pressure fronts.

There is an excellent book on the interplay and misdiagnosis of mental disorder in the gifted and Talented. It is called Misdiagnosis And Dual Diagnoses Of Gifted Children And Adults. I consider it a must read for anyone working with gifted children and adults.

]]> By: Aaron Jackson http://www.starstryder.com/2007/04/17/an-academic-life-punctuated-with-bullets/comment-page-1/#comment-1063 Aaron Jackson Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:52:14 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/?p=86#comment-1063 Very insightful. It is interesting that depression, suicide etc. have all increased so drastically in the last century. As we become a more "intelligent" society it becomes more and more difficult to be accepted, and to accept ourselves, if we do not measure up to the IQ of the professors and fellow students that are gifted with "what it takes", not to mention trying to measure up materialistically...which is becoming more and more difficult if you have not risen to the top in your field. A catch 20 with drastic consequences, not only when people snap and take others lives, but also when they spend their lives feeling that they are less of a contributor to society because they did poorly on their SAT. It is important that we begin to find worth in each individual not based on the highest level of school they have completed, but on the worth that is built into them as a human being. Very insightful. It is interesting that depression, suicide etc. have all increased so drastically in the last century. As we become a more “intelligent” society it becomes more and more difficult to be accepted, and to accept ourselves, if we do not measure up to the IQ of the professors and fellow students that are gifted with “what it takes”, not to mention trying to measure up materialistically…which is becoming more and more difficult if you have not risen to the top in your field. A catch 20 with drastic consequences, not only when people snap and take others lives, but also when they spend their lives feeling that they are less of a contributor to society because they did poorly on their SAT.

It is important that we begin to find worth in each individual not based on the highest level of school they have completed, but on the worth that is built into them as a human being.

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