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Welcome! I am Jason Nguyen, a graduate student in ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington, and this blog is where I make observations about music, culture, and academic life.Again I contend that we are not doing more harm than good in demonstration because I think demonstration serves the purpose of bringing the issues out in the open. I have never felt that demonstrations could actually solve the problem. They call attention to the problem. They dramatize the existence of certain social ills [...]
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This site takes a random Family Circus and puts it with a random Nietzsche quote. My first two:
Anyway, I want them to (1) email me one tangible goal at the beginning of the week, and (2) reflect on that goal at the end of the week. However, if you know college students, that’s actually FOUR emails from me. The first one to tell them to send me the goal, the second to remind them about it, the third to tell them to send the reflection, and the fourth to remind them to send the reflection. I’m envisioning this as a weekly thing, so I don’t want to take out 4 times a week to remember to do that. But I can do it all at once by scheduling emails for the future! Continue reading Schedule Gmail delivery with Boomerang (feat. my MCAT students) I haz a new site for my silly things: http://www.lolculture.com Everyone who has a little lolcat in them should contribute! Just comment below or email me at lolculture@jrnguyen.com to get added to that blog. Context: One of them is a kitty. The other is Claude Levi-Strauss, for whom the idea of The Raw and the Cooked [...] For those unaware, there was a recent robbery on the IU campus that, because the two groups were of different races, has been framed by the media as a racially motivated attack…we see an important journalistic concern: how to tell the truth while also contextualizing it. [...] For the past two weeks, I’ve been digging deeply into Vietnam’s various forays into UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage policies, particularly from the perspective of (1) Vietnamese media reports and (2) documents produced by UNESCO. I used two different techniques for keeping up with both of these fields… Continue reading Advanced Googling AKA “How I found UNESCO ICH meeting notes” I was re-reading some notes I had taken on Geertz’s Works and Lives tonight while working on a paper for my fieldwork class. I appended the following bit to my reflection/summary of the work: [...]We share a genealogy with those scholars who had transitioned into that post-modern moment, but the traits have been remixed [...] |
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So I’m trying to be more proactive with some of my MCAT students, getting them to make realistic, tangible goals that will drive them to succeed on the test and into their medical careers. (Folks who recognize my abilities of procrastination will find the fact that I am giving this advice greatly ironic and you are welcome to laugh at me.)