Any academic knows that part of their job is reviewing, commenting on and critiquing your colleagues work. Well...

Tomorrow, two of my colleagues and I have the "honor" of leading our Social Stratification class in a discussion of a (highly controversial) book. Not bad, right. Well, how about if the book happens to be written by the professor, who happens to be the chair of the department, a department that happens to be ripe with controversy, much of which happens to spawn from the content of said book??? Bad, huh? Well, tomorrow at 2:00pm, we walk into our fate as academic critics - while the object of our critique sits only a chair or two away. Whilst my colleagues and I met to discuss our horrific task, we pondered the propriety of assigning your own book in a class anyway! I guess academics are stricken with varying degrees of ego-centrism and willingness to assign your own book is a measure thereof. In all fairness, PK (as we call him) is a very nice guy...and I'm sure it will be fine.

So, instead of reviewing the book and preparing for class, I've created this blog. I am a responsible student (who is dispassionately making my way to a Master's degree). That said, we'll see how often I make it to write down my sociological thoughts.