I graduated from Yale University in 1994 with a degree in English. In New Haven, I divided my time studying, procrastinating, socializing, and playing French horn in the Yale Symphony Orchestra.
Before that, I spent sixteen of my eighteen years in a suburb of Chicago. I might as well mention the Chicago Bulls in this next sentence, since they're one of the most awesome things Chicago has to offer. Even my mother, a musician who's never handled a basketball in her life, marvels at Michael Jordan. One night as we were watching him score his usual forty points, she intoned, "Aren't we lucky to be living in Michael Jordan's era?!" Anyway, I attended New Trier High School, a big and fairly well-known public school north of the city.
Some excellent sites I've come across that pertain to women's issues:
- An extraordinary article in Cultronix about a woman's struggle with breast cancer
My picks for "Best Procrastination Sites on the Web":
- Online blackjack (there's no option to play with real money, of course, but the game has minimum bet of $100 cyber-dollars -- a fantasy that I highly recommend to fellow [poor] graduate students!)
- The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (I couldn't tell you what "type" I am, since my answers change every time I take the test....)
- Mindy McAdams's interactive spelling test (find out just how much you've forgotten from grammar school)
Feel free to send thoughts to the author (conlona@gusun.acc.georgetown.edu).
This page was made for Randy Bass' graduate seminar:
The Electronic Kool-Aid Acid Text, or, Text, Knowledge, and Pedagogy in the Electronic Age,
Spring 1996.