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[katallison.livejournal.com]

This challenge *rocks.* One thing I've been enjoying in some of the stories (shellmidwife's and heuradys's, for example) is writers taking the opportunity to use some of their own specific professional knowledge in the documents they create. So this weekend, after several grueling days of getting new college students oriented and registed, and scribbling reams of file notes, I found this floating into my head. It's wayyyy over the word limit, so I'm posting it on my own webspace rather than in LJ, with apologies for inconvenience. Just a bit of silly fluff, but I had fun writing it.

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[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Not fluff. It's so Ray...and so *my* students (or a few of them, at least). And you know, I've been teaching long enough now, that I've had some former students who were lovely people, but just not academically inclined, pop back into view (visiting me in my office or sending an email after ten years) with news about how they actually ended up finding their niche in business or art or design or whatever. This was a very cool background piece for Ray's life.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

*nodding* It's my greatest challenge as an advisor, really--how to deal with students who are bright and talented but not at all academic in their interests. They've got the societal message of "You have to get a degree," but boy, a lot of them I think would be much happier (and do better, long-term) going somewhere other than college. Thanks for the kind words!