Live what you preach.

Now that I've had more quality time with my teachers, I can make more informed observations.

Sacks:
She likes to bring up names that, for sure, nobody else in the school knows, and ask us, has anyone heard of xxx?
I don't think that she intentionnally gives out ocassionnal hint on the social-economical background of her friends' circle during classes, but it really really tends to get on my nerves.
Ok. So this person has this income and bought that artwork.
So that person is sueing Elisabeth Taylor for a rightful heirloom, a multi-million case.
Alright, this dame over here has a haute-couture boutique and gets her stock in Europe.
Great. What else?
How is this give me a deeper understanding of the course?
Other than that, I don't want to complain.
She really tries to encourage student participation, to a point which her classes have lost the feels of a lecture, only to resemble vaguely a Q&A session/reading group.
Being the big snob, I am really happy when she gave me the wink when I pointed out Susan Sontag's name in an article she brought.

Shugar:
Oh, Mr.Shugar.
You are TRULY a philosophy major.
I can sense that vibe miles away, considering that our course material is more philosophy-related than english-related.
No wonder that the class he had last term didn't do well on the essays.
They didn't realise that they were in a PHILOSOPHY class, and wrote on English instead.
Believe me, if you are trying to score in Shugar's class, just give him what he wants: solid arguments, preferably served with cool irony, and OED may become your best pal for a while.
Just check out what I learnt for myself when I did the background check for one of my readings:
THe CONTINGENCY of Selfhood.
I had no idea what contingency meant when I first looked at it.
Here it is:
The condition of being free from predetermining necessity in regard to existence or action; hence, the being open to the play of chance, or of free will.
Is it just me, or we are falling in to the maze of words?
One last thing, he is a little too much organized for a language teacher...

No need to give space to Lysy, you know what she's like anyway.
Roffey, same comment I had in last post.
Hernandez...hard to pin down.
But I think that he is WAY discouraged by the irresponsiveness of my class. (BTW, he speaks Spanish...I just found out, for those who already know...OK..maybe I was a bit slow to catch up...Hernandez...who would thought that it sounds hispanic...not me....maybe not...anyway)
The other teacher...I am leaving him out of my list.
Yes, this is how he makes me feel.