While this may not be terribly appropriate -- the ink has barely dried on the bluebooks -- I wanted to share excerpts from two "definitions" of "the glass ceiling" which a couple of my students wrote for their examinations today:
...There was a glass barrier or obstacle. For example, there is a tree outside, I want to run and fling my arms around the tree, but I would run into the glass window.
And my favorite:
The "glass ceiling is also, like a bird trying to fly to space but can't because after a certin altitude, it becomes too cold for the bird to surivive so the bird can never go to space, because something will always prevent it from going to space.(I should add that the two students did indeed give accurate short IDs for the term, but also tacked on the oddly lyrical descriptions.) Posted by the wily filipino at December 8, 2005 04:41 PM
ah, everybody and they mamma's a poet. dear.
Posted by: poeta on December 8, 2005 07:58 PMAh, the Poeta, so cynical in her poetness. I mean, come on! Didn't you like the image of the guy running into the window, his arms outstretched, ready to hug a tree?
Posted by: the wily filipino on December 8, 2005 10:38 PMthat's what they get for being a dadgum tree-hugger!
Posted by: o.p. on December 9, 2005 08:57 AMha, and ehem. the poeta gives you poet points for *your* use of irony. ha.
Posted by: poeta on December 9, 2005 09:35 AMequal parts sad and hilarious. keep 'em comin'.
Posted by: swing on December 9, 2005 03:13 PMSo unintentionally poetic. I have a student who turned in a two paragraph essay (two HUGE paragraphs) for his last assignment this semester. He wrote, "Margaret Cho is a whore."
Posted by: brown on December 10, 2005 01:25 PM