"How To Do Well In This Class"
david moses fruchter <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:09:30 -0600
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In the recent interview with SRD in the Paris Review, he says, referring to flunking out of college: ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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