The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
|
 |
 
|
Any accounts of what DFW was like as a professor?
Poast new message in this thread
Date: November 8th, 2015 3:17 PM Author: Rambunctious indirect expression I've seen a few of his syllabuses online (Ransom Collection @ UT) but haven't heard what his students thought about him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138118) |
Date: November 8th, 2015 3:19 PM Author: Beady-eyed Lake Becky Shitlib The movie made it sounds like his students loved him. Just a quirky down to earth type who encouraged them to write creatively. Who knows how accurate that is, but it sounds pretty credited since he was asked to speak at graduations and shit all the time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138129) |
 |
Date: November 8th, 2015 3:22 PM Author: Rambunctious indirect expression Do you think he changed when he moved from teaching at Illinois STTTAte to Pomona? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138146) |
|
Date: November 8th, 2015 3:38 PM Author: Overrated Yapping Useless Brakes I think I remember reading somewhere that he didn't think much of the caliber of students at ISU, but ultimately found the trust fund kids at Pomona to be more loathsome. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138201) |
|
Date: November 8th, 2015 3:23 PM Author: Hilarious disrespectful mother Catching Rape vibes off this bro.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace
Wallace struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, depression, suicide attempts, institutionalization, and at times inappropriate sexual behavior. Wallace is reported to have slept with some of his female students while teaching at university and sometimes exhibited stalking-like obsessive behavior when enamored with a woman.[15]
|
|
Date: November 8th, 2015 3:25 PM Author: Beady-eyed Lake Becky Shitlib Yeah the movie gave off that impression too that he became weirdly obsessed with girls, told off the Rolling Stones editor merely because he talked/flirted with his ex girlfriend ljl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138159) |
|
Date: November 8th, 2015 3:26 PM Author: Hilarious disrespectful mother lol. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138164) |
|
Date: November 8th, 2015 3:26 PM Author: Beady-eyed Lake Becky Shitlib Also the movie made it seem like impressing women with his writing was a huge motivation of his for writing. He liked all the attention and being able to fuck girls because of his notoriety. But because he's a pretty deep dood this also disturbed him that he liked it so much. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138163) |
|
Date: November 8th, 2015 3:26 PM Author: Hilarious disrespectful mother This bro sounds very xoxo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138166) |
|
Date: December 15th, 2017 8:16 AM Author: excitant pungent institution You write from the heart or the glands. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34925585) |
|
Date: December 15th, 2017 8:22 AM Author: Useless slate son of senegal According to Franzen, when they were on a book tour together he would excitedly talk about the "audience pussy" he'd get at their next reading (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34925597) |
|
Date: December 15th, 2017 8:24 AM Author: concupiscible out-of-control shrine I know a writer who dated him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34925601) |
|
Date: December 15th, 2017 9:06 AM Author: Shimmering area alpha mods (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34925728) |
|
Date: November 8th, 2015 3:26 PM Author: Domesticated Abode check quora. there's a decent thread on this topic there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138165) |
|
Date: November 8th, 2015 3:29 PM Author: Overrated Yapping Useless Brakes Feeling he had endured the scorn of the Arizona professors, Wallace made sure his comments were supportive and the tone of the class positive. He did not want to replicate the discouraging classroom atmosphere he had just left. He cautioned the students, as one remembers, not to “tap dance in cleats” on one another’s stories. His syllabus was conventional, meant to teach the basic tools of writing: character, dialogue, and plot. He gave his students Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” to illustrate the unreliable narrator and Lee K. Abbott’s “Living Alone in Iota” to showcase voice. “Just because it really happened, doesn’t make it good fiction,” he would remind them. He had the ability to shift gears in this way—to go from the pyrotechnics of writing “Westward” to teaching the rudiments of fiction; in fact, the simpler the teaching, the happier it made him. He did not go to class for challenges, personal or intellectual, he went to find certainties of the sort that eluded him in his own writing. Every meeting started with a grammar lesson—the difference between “between” and “among” or “further” and “farther.” “I’m a grammar Nazi,” he liked to tell his students. One day he put the words “pulchritudinous,” “miniscule,” “big,” and “misspelled” on the blackboard. He asked his students what the four words had in common, and, when no one knew, happily pointed out that the appearance of each was the opposite of its meaning: “pulchritudinous” was ugly, “miniscule” was big, “big” was small, and “misspelled” was spelled correctly. The students had rarely seen him so happy.
To their eyes, the twenty-five-year-old Wallace was a mystery. He came to class in his Arizona bandana (some thought it was to keep his hair from falling out), Timberland boots, and plaid shirts, cursed, and took frequent smoking breaks. |
|
Date: November 8th, 2015 3:38 PM Author: Rambunctious indirect expression 180 blackboard anecdote (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138198) |
|
Date: December 14th, 2017 11:45 PM Author: Deranged milky state feces He sounds like a reasonable man. No wonder he killed himself- we live in an unreasonable world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34924014) |
|
Date: December 15th, 2017 1:10 AM Author: lascivious casino juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34924581) |
|
Date: December 15th, 2017 12:57 AM Author: Thriller gay stead ladyboy "One day he put the words “pulchritudinous,” “miniscule,” “big,” and “misspelled” on the blackboard. He asked his students what the four words had in common, and, when no one knew, happily pointed out that the appearance of each was the opposite of its meaning: “pulchritudinous” was ugly, “miniscule” was big, “big” was small, and “misspelled” was spelled correctly."
180 |
|
Date: December 15th, 2017 8:30 AM Author: vigorous toilet seat principal's office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34925616) |