Saturday 4 May 2013

The new school year

The other night I was invited to a rather fancy welcome dinner at one of the universities I am working at this year.  The view was impressive. The food was impressive. The open bar was impressive.  Four universities, three welcome parties (National universities can't afford welcome parties).  All of them impressive in their own ways.
I wish universities could also have impressive administration that accurately disemminated information about things like whether the class on the timetable was first years or second years, English majors or English non majors, a writing class or a speaking class, grading each semester or grading for the whole year.  The golden rule is fast becoming.... check with the students.... sigh....
 
 
 

3 comments:

Rurousha said...

Where's that? Roppongi?

Heh. My university get-togethers consist of noodles in the cafeteria. Ah well. It's pretty OK noodles ...

PS: Today's CAPTCHA uses an umlaut u: its first word is für. We now have to type diacritics?!

Rurousha said...

Oh. I ignored the umlaut and it went through. ^^

Cecilia said...

The top pic. you can see Tokyo dome.

Diacrits...forget that...

Have you seen the ted talk on recaptcha?