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[YakTamer]

Why would Princeton, the school you advertise yourself as a graduate of (both here and on sites like ang.pl), be offering a course in

[BindairDundat GotdaTshirt]

This is for Alex,
FYI what you read is a handbook that is broad information and doesn't dive into specifics fellows really have to endure or achieve to make the most out of the program. Only accelerated students coming with good standings and an undergraduate degree from another Ivy League school, like my case-an AB from Princeton- could have got the right pull and get to teach during the second year. Most of the fellows had to teach during the second year anyway because the PhD fast track didn't have enough candidates to cover all the teaching assignments. You have two choices: you can complete your requirements earlier and take shortcuts on the timetable or you can follow the program which is designed to suck money most of us can't afford to amount.
If your passion for infiltrating in the complicated life of a fellow in Harvard keeps you from sleeping, maybe you should try spending less time with teachers outside your pay level.
And for the one yakking, nothing really. It's just that I happen to find stimulus in some of the BA draft theses many English Philology students in Poland have sent me following a pro bono offer I did in ang.pl. Some of those projects I found inspiring. Others still have promise.
I don't think you will show that kind of deference unless you got paid.

[Khrystene]

Christ, I hope none of my 3rd year writing students are sending things to you... I'd kill them... then fail them.

[YakTamer]

A pun on yak? Magna_Cum_Laudae, I salute you! (salutis popularis verbositem personis qui depositorum multiplicanda posti cum_ nil vulgaris et obnubilatus lexis!)

Is that not the motto at Princeton or Harvard? I'm sure it's one or the other.

Nothing will come of nothing, as they say.

[BindairDundat GotdaTshirt]

Maybe your hairy ears can't get used to the fact that when you hear that someone has graduated from college in the States, it really means that he or she has just passed the undergraduate level.
So yes, I graduated for Princeton with a BA, and as a Harvard PhD candidate, I obtained a non-terminal AM from the same. So in both cases you can refer to me as a grad.
I'm not sure what native speakers you're yapping about. I care less to know. All I can say is that by your posting scurrilous comments, people in this forum will grow weary with them. And this effect won't look good back in your herd, will it?

[svenhassel]

prepositions my dear man, prepositions.

are you for real?

you make basic mistakes with grammar which leads me to suggest you are not a native speaker.......

is someone helping you write this stuff?

do you have an identity complex?

I really don't get it.

what motivates you?

is that enough attention?

[YakTamer]

Bindair, I meant nothing scurrilous and, judging by the volume of your posts, I can't hope to get the last word against someone who has more spare time to post on this board than I do, but I will say this: brevity is the soul of wit, and clarity is a virtue (especially in English teachers). Think on that, and save your vaunted intellect for your students, who are better served by its application than the intellectual pygmies you range against here (people who have been to neither Harvard nor Princeton and so can't name-drop either).

I'll get back on topic and agree with the people who say that a CELTA holder is preferable to someone who flashes MAs in English Literature, expecting the DoS's to soil their underwear in amazement. What I've seen on this board in recent days is proof enough of that.

But it's true, my ears are getting hairier!

[BindairDundat GotdaTshirt]

And by catching a typo you think that will make you more native than me...
I wish that after six generations of Americans before me I could claim some truly Native-American blood. There is no-one more native than them.
Since I don't care to entertain your writ large superiority complex, what you would really want me to be is an aborigine. That way you could feel right at home and start questioning why people like me are not kicked out or persecuted.

[Mr. Kalgukshi]

This thread is locked and those responsible for it happening will be hearing from me shortly.