Office hours location update

Hi, all! In order to avoid disturbing my officemates, I'm going to be in HCW 7117 for my office hours this afternoon. On the off chance that someone kicks us out of the classroom, I'll update the note on my office door.

Tuesday prefinal office hours

(The final prefinal hours, as it were.)

• Tue 5/15, 3:30 to 5:30 pm, 7134 Helen C. White Hall

7134 HCW is my actual office. If my fellow TAs are around I would rather not disturb them -- we can look for a classroom down the hall. If we move, I'll leave a note on the door.

Pre-final office hours!

Where I'll be:

• Monday 5/14 - 11 am to 3 pm - Fair Trade Coffee House
• Tuesday 5/15 - 3:30 to 5:30 pm - TBA

Come with questions, or with texts you'd like to go over. If I'm sitting with someone, join us! The more perspectives we have on a question or on a text the better we'll all do. (You might think about this as a sort of pedagogical multiperspectivalism.)

Possible prefinal office hours

I'm thinking about holding office hours on Monday of finals week from 11 am to 3 pm. Will those of you who are fairly certain you would like to meet with me before the final exam be able to meet with me during those hours? Would you prefer Sunday afternoon hours? Responses via email or via comments below are welcome.

Essay 2 conferences sign-up sheet (Updated 4/16)

For me, the best part of the second essays is almost always the conversations I get to have with students as they work through them. In bullet format, here are two rules for these conferences:

1. Come with at least 300 words of draft text of your essay (e.g. a draft of an introduction, a richly detailed outline, a sequence of possible thesis statements or thesis questions)
2. Come with at least one prepared question to ask me

Send me an email to let me know which slot you'd like to sign up for. I'll try to keep on top of the requests, but to be safe you might want to give me a range of times or at least a first and second choice. Thanks!

Tuesday 10 April (Steep & Brew)
12:30 pm -
12:50 -
1:10 -
1:30 -
1:50 -
2:10 -

Wednesday 11 April (Fair Trade Coffee House)
10:30 am -
10:50 -
11:10 - Ed
11:30 - Andrew
11:50 -
12:10 pm -
12:30 -

Thursday 12 April (Fair Trade Coffee House)
9:30 am -
9:50 -
10:10 -
10:30 - Heidi

Friday 13 April (Espresso Royale Caffe, 650 State Street)
1:00 pm - Tara
1:20 -
1:40 -

Tuesday 17 April (Steep & Brew)
12:30 pm - Kelly
12:50 - Dan
1:10 - Jenna
1:30 - John
1:50 - Justine
2:10 - Ross
2:30 - Alicia

Wednesday 18 April (Barriques Coffee Trader, 127 West Washington)
10:30 am - Ruth
10:50 - Leigh Ann
11:10 - Paul
11:30 - Andrew
11:50 - Elena
12:10 pm - Andy V. P.
12:30 - Nora
12:50 - Emily S.
1:10 - Emily A.
1:30 - Ed
1:50 - Alex
2:20 - Joe

Thursday 19 April (Fair Trade Coffee House)
9:30 am - Stephen
9:50 - Todd
10:10 - Alyssa

Essay 1 conferences, a sign-up sheet (Updated 2/13)

Hi, all! If you'd like to meet to discuss the first essay, I'd appreciate it if you would send me an email to sign up for one of the conference slots listed below. If these times don't work for you -- or if the times that would have worked have gotten filled -- just let me know and I'll be happy to meet you at a time convenient to you.

My one request is that when you come to chat with me you have a fairly specific idea of what you would like to write about -- or at least one or two directions you could go, and that you have specific questions to ask. Drafts of anything -- theses, close readings, partial or whole essays -- are welcome!

Tuesday 13 February (Steep & Brew)
12:30 pm - Mark
12:45 - Jenna
1:00 -
1:15 -
1:30 -
1:45 - Heidi
2:00 -
2:15 -

Wednesday 14 February (Fair Trade Coffee House)
10:00 am - Stephen
10:15 -
10:30 -
10:45 -
11:00 -
11:15 - Mia
11:30 -

Thursday 15 February (Steep & Brew In the foyer of Humanities 3650)
10:00 am -
10:15 -
10:30 - Marysa

Tuesday 20 February (Steep & Brew)
12:30 pm - Andy V. P.
12:45 - Kelly
1:00 -
1:15 - John
1:30 - Dan
1:45 -
2:00 - Justine
2:15 -

(Continued above.)

Two quick notes about hebdomadals, and one quick note about office hours

Hi! I forgot to say one important thing about hebdomadals to my first section, and I forgot a different important thing for my second section:

1. You must turn in a hebdomadal before discussion on Friday February 9th. This first hebdomadal replaces the one-page paper assignment Prof. Ortiz-Robles has been mentioning in class. For this first hebdomadal, I ask that you please stick fairly close to the topics I post online, if only so you get a sense of how I'm asking you ta tackle texts.
2. If you write more than the required 5 hebdomadals, you will be able to accrue extra credit. I will keep counting hebdomadals until you reach 15 points -- that's 5 points over the amount set aside for hebdomadals.

Remember that my office hours are today after lecture (12:30 to 2:30 pm) at the Steep & Brew on State Street. Come visit me! I'd love to get a chance to meet you.