by Jenae Cohn | Jul 9, 2013 | Literature, Personal, Professionalization
I’ve been sent to an administrator’s office. The hallway is long, sterile, inevitably linoleum. I’m ushered into a room with taupe walls and stock art. A secretary barely notices me. Then, it’s time to talk to the Man in Charge. “There’s been something of… a mix-up in...
by Jenae Cohn | Oct 1, 2012 | Pedagogy
I glanced at the clock: 7:50 A.M. Everyone’s here? Now? I teach UWP 1, freshman composition, in a computer lab this quarter and behind every monitor sat a student waiting to begin class. They were all ten minutes early at the already inhumane (at least by...
by Jenae Cohn | Aug 17, 2012 | Personal
Endings discomfit me. The recognition that I will likely never return to a particular place again tends to evoke within me this slight surge of panic, this almost instinctual desire to reclaim my ownership over that place (or at least reclaim my control to be in that...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 18, 2012 | Personal, Web Culture Musings
I’m not used to waiting for things. I would wager to say that most of us who grew up in the digital age are not used to waiting for things either. Information is rapid, instant, and instantly gratifying. Given this fact, it is easy to forget how much labor goes...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 24, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Pedagogy
Have I mentioned here before that I work an additional job as a freelance (ghost) editor for a college and career counselor? Well, I’m mentioning it now and for one reason in particular: the ubiquitous “newspaper rhetoric” assignment. You know the...
