"How To Do Well In This Class"

david moses fruchter <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:09:30 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.culture.sf.delany
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In the recent interview with SRD in the Paris Review, he says, referring 
to flunking out of college:

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It took me a while to realize that if a teacher had taken me aside and 
said, “Come on, Chip, sit down, let’s talk, this is how you have to do 
this,†probably I would have learned how to negotiate it. But nobody did.

INTERVIEWER

What would they have said?

DELANY

Well, when I started as a comparative-literature professor at the 
University of Massachusetts, I wrote an essay explaining how you do 
it—“How to Do Well in This Classâ€â€”and I still give it out to students 
who are having problems of that sort. Basically it’s about what’s gained 
by living your life in end-stopped time units, both for work and for 
play. Some of the students I’ve given it to have found it helpful. I 
wish I’d had it when I entered college.

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I would absolutely love to read this essay -- I think it could help me 
quite a bit too. Anybody know where to find a copy? Thanks,

d