tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19408862.post4688435371757176298..comments2023-10-29T04:36:52.733-05:00Comments on elle, phd: Breaking Downellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01867952598756889997noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19408862.post-27445990524485702772007-04-02T16:19:00.000-05:002007-04-02T16:19:00.000-05:00How could I be horrified that the student saw your...How could I be horrified that the student saw your emotion? I wasn't there, and my eyes are filling up!<BR/><BR/>My sister's boyfriend just found out he's going back, too.<BR/><BR/>I hate it all.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16995641658376827290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19408862.post-82996264890336721522007-04-01T01:16:00.000-05:002007-04-01T01:16:00.000-05:00wow. that is crazy.... in so many ways.wow. that is crazy.... in so many ways.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19408862.post-91035480808344649152007-03-30T11:41:00.000-05:002007-03-30T11:41:00.000-05:00argh.you know...my mom once helped one of her form...argh.<BR/><BR/>you know...my mom once helped one of her former students get out of Iraq. i forget the exact process; he needed a letter of rec for formal discharge, or something. <BR/><BR/>i hope he's okay, your student. this whole thing bites.belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19408862.post-77184714676506969092007-03-30T10:55:00.000-05:002007-03-30T10:55:00.000-05:00I agree with bf tx, you wouldn't be normal if you ...I agree with bf tx, you wouldn't be normal if you didn't feel <I>something</I> and it is perfectly normal to feel as you did. I hope the young man is able to get out of it or if he does go, he comes back. It just makes me so sad that so many of our young people are being loss in this war. :(RageyOnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03690295219089454070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19408862.post-75757727904739595442007-03-30T09:30:00.000-05:002007-03-30T09:30:00.000-05:00You wouldn't be you if something like that didn't ...You wouldn't be you if something like that didn't get to you. It saddens me just reading it when I think about how useless this whole "war" has been (my opinion of-course) and young men and women like him could be spending there time on something so much more meaningful then what they are being asked to do right now.<BR/><BR/>God bless him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19408862.post-27769323117788000012007-03-30T08:27:00.000-05:002007-03-30T08:27:00.000-05:00You know, it's so easy to assume that what we do (...You know, it's so easy to assume that what we do (as academics) should be the most important thing in a student's life, but as you know, it's not. They have lives and fears and struggles and whatever . . . just as we do. They are human; so are we. I think it's wonderful that you showed your student your own humanity, that you cared for him as a human (not just as a student). I've found that students repond so favorably to knowing that we have human emotions, too.<BR/><BR/>It's sad that he has been redeployed, but it's wonderful that he now knows you care about HIM.<BR/><BR/>:-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com