Word: egos
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...thought I could use some masculinity training, but I didn't really want to deal with the side effects of getting into a brawl (broken bones; bruised head and ego). So I jumped at the chance to go to SmackDown!, the World Wrestling Federation's slugfest in which masculinity rules and violence is the answer to any dispute...
...quality depends on the teaching, and too many professors use co-taught classes as a forum for their own personal debates rather than for a teaching experience. As Williamson admits, "There's good teaching and there's bad teaching." Courses where the team-teaching experience becomes more of ego trip than a class may attract students, but they do not ultimately add anything to a liberal arts education...
...note to other Harvard professors: You don't need to inflate your ego, join other Big Names and give your course a Hollywood title to make us rave about you. Just give us what these three are advertising: a class that will allow us to think, for credit...
...Thalia, winner of the infamous - and never-ending - "I Wanna Be a VJ Contest" clomps by in big boots and poofy hair. She looks a lot cooler than she does on TV. I can't help thinking how huge her ego must be. But it is comforting, that she too, unlike the rest of everyone at MTV, was once one of us staring at the popular crowd at the lunch table, looking at everything from the outside...
Furthermore, many of their peers see leaving the South as a sign of an inflated ego or a rejection of their own states, rather than just a desire to expand their horizons, Lovett says...