Category: group dynamics

Todd intends to make us all infamous.
We missed Phee that night; I wonder if anyone can count how many times we have “cohorted” over the last year and a half? Not that the number is that important, but I think a qualitative shift happened for us this year. The night we went to Panda East (in October?) we … Read more...

Some domestic students were at the press conference against the new surveillance fee for international students but the University is corresponding separately with international students (via email)…another divide and conquor technique? Here are two stories on yesterday’s press conference, in which George elicited wild, spontaneous applause (causing those of us who know him to wonder at the rebel within…)
The … Read more...

I heard:
“Snoring is not a sin.”
I misheard:
“They belong to Danny.” (Actually referred to a pair of flip-flops.)… Read more...

As I posted the previous link it occurred to me that our discussion in class last night might have been the microsocial acting out of the larger public debate now underway about gay marriage … Read more...

I acquired a pair of sexy black panties. Not mine!
An omission – being “disciplined” as a member of the collective (“Resistance is Futile”) was a challenge because of the introvert factor. How do introverts survive in more group-based societies? The social rules must accommodate various forms or degrees of “less” participation in order to prevent too much grumpiness, let … Read more...

Who logged the most sun time at Miami Beach? I can only claim 6-8 hours – believe it or not. I lost many hours of daylight recovering from the cultural event at the Twist in South Beach. SOME people can really dance! 😉 btw … Read more...

Briankle wowed us with another surrealist chalkboard work of art last night. Will post a photo once I get ’em developed, scanned, and uploaded. (At the outer reaches of my technology learning curve.)
Taste-tested pumpkin beer later (practically tasteless) while Raz sucked down a Dark and Stormy and Sarbjeet nursed cinnamon tea. I’ll be sticking with Massatucky Brown.… Read more...

Scott goes down in history for this example, but he’s in competition with Raz for the best joke in rhetoric last night. Iris “shot” Dan with her hands as guns and Raz blew away the smoke.
Maybe you had to be there? 🙂
Class went a half-hour over again (I think everyone who stayed WANTED to, some folks trickled out … Read more...

I’m in two of the most dynamic COM classes this semester. About a dozen students in each, and the most interactive, highest percentage of participation I’ve experienced to date. In Briankle’s class (roughly, philosophy of translation), we’d spent a huge chunk of time talking about a piece by Walter Benjamin in which the garden of eden figured prominently. George asked … Read more...

First day of classes yesterday for moi. Cohorters will gather tonight…should be fun. Most of us still seem to be sorting out which courses to take; I’m thinking I’ll probably not take Benjamin’s as it seems I can’t use it in the way I’d hoped (with the backlog of FLOW data). I’ll withhold my decision though until checking out the … Read more...