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Re-rehash: Interview Questions
Here's the list from two years ago, with some additions:
Course content
1. What kind of intro do you teach and why? As Anon. 1:58 puts it, "What do you cover in Intro and why? Do you give a historical or problems course? Do you emphasize methods or content? Primary sources or textbook?"
2. Inside the Philosophy Factory's got a broader take on the same idea. She asks, what's your "vision for 'normal' philosophy courses and your methods for teaching logic? Here you'll want to explain the kinds of exercises you'll do to keep students engaged. You'll also want to explain your assessment methods for those courses."
Interdisciplinary and cross-department teaching
3. What would you teach if you got to design your own course integrating material from other disciplines?
4. From Sisyphus, "How would you teach our cross-listed courses with gen ed./the Core Curriculum/some other department/the writing program?"
Engaging students
5. How would you engage students that are required to take philosophy courses but who otherwise would not have?
6. Here's a variation from Anon. 1:58: "How would you get students at our school interested in your class X? Why would our students want to take it?"
7. John Turri's talking engagement too, but he's going a different direction: "What techniques would you use to engage students, in the same class, of very different levels of ability and interest?"
8. Back to Sisyphus: "How would you work with our students as opposed to the ones at your current institution" (i.e., differences in diversity, age, college prep, money, types of feeder schools, a religious mission, they are all huge b-ball fans, etc.)"
9. Here's Inside the Philosophy Factory: What are "your methods for adjusting to different preparation levels in the classroom? Here is where you'll have to explain how you'll deal with the kid who can't read and the kid who had to come home from Princeton sitting next to one another in your freshman Ethics course."
Teaching practices
10. How does your research inform your teaching?
11. From Anon. 1:58: "What is your strength/weakness as a teacher? What is special about your classes? What do you feel you need to work on?"
12. John T again: "What incentives do you build into the course to encourage your students to actually do the reading?"
13. What technology do you use in teaching? Besides chalk, I guess.
14. From Inside the Philosophy Factory: How would you "deal with a few students who are doing badly in the class -- and how you would deal with a significant portion of the class that is doing badly? She recommends, "The key with the student is to offer more help and to understand what resources are available to help students who need more assistance. With the class who is doing badly, discuss how you'd do some review to reinforce some important concepts AND to do classroom assessment techniques like asking about the 'muddiest point' etc."
15. From Sisyphus, "what sorts of limitations do you see yourself working around in your research here (i.e., how will you deal with our heavy teaching load and research requirements at the same time?)?"
16. And Michael Cholbi underlines the point: "Be ready to talk about how you'd teach large courses (50+) on your own."
Michael C. also recommends having a handful of memorable points to make about your teaching. Now, nothing makes a talking point go down smooth like a charming little anecdote. . . .
Regarding Faculty Interaction (from "Use"; in comments last year)
17. How do you plan to deal/how have you dealt in the past with disagreements with other faculty members?
18. How do you think you would fit in with our current faculty?
19. If you were on a search committee within our department, what would the three most important qualities of a candidate be?
20. What is the most exciting prospect about working with our current faculty?
21. From Anon. 1:58: "What was your worst/best moment as a philosophy teacher and why? How did you react/respond?"
22. Sisyphus again: "Describe a time you had to deal with a problem student."
23. And back to Inside the Philosophy Factory: Describe "your most challenging teaching situation and your most rewarding experience. Here is where you tell the story about little Jimmy who was sure he couldn't do logic -- who had talked himself out of being able to pass the class and who finally ended up passing the class"
24. Anon. 1:58: "From a religious school: How would you get along with our students?"
25. Inside the Philosophy Factory Again: Talk about "your professional development. Here is where you'll want to talk about the teaching seminars you're attending via your grad university, how you are a member of APT etc... This is not where you give details about conference papers, publications etc -- unless there is a research element to your position. Then you make it about 50/50."
26. "Suppose someone (perhaps a community member, and not necessarily a student) came to you and asked how to resolve moral problem X. What would you tell them to do?"
27. "Which do you see as you primary focus--teaching or research?"
28. What is philosophy? (from R. Kevin Hill, in comments last year)
You might also want to read the comments on this post, this post, this post, and also this and this.
Any additions? Any resources I've overlooked?
--Mr. Zero
Update: In comments, anon 1:53 points us to this article in IHE.
24 comments:
That's a good list. All I'll add is good luck to those of you who have APA interviews.
- December 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM
"How do you feel about us dumping all our administrative work on you until we hire someone more junior than you to do it? Will you do it with a half-smile or a full smile?"
- December 2, 2009 at 8:59 AM
What a good list of questions. Many thanks for this.
- December 2, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Ummmm, so: Anyone have any research-related sample questions? I hope I get asked one or two of those. (And not just about how my research relates to my teaching or how I will manage to do research while teaching a heavy load.)
- December 2, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Most of the research questions I've been asked were specific to my own projects. So unlike teaching questions, it's difficult to give an example that would be generally helpful to anyone else.
- December 2, 2009 at 10:59 AM
As far as research questions go, be prepared to discuss the most basic, foundational issues related to your work.
You have probably spent 90% of your recent efforts defending what to those outside of your specialty may look like very minor points. Be prepared to engage in the big picture stuff. (For example, if you're working on something technical in formal semantics, be prepared for questions as general as "Why do you take the study of language to be of philosophical importance?") These kinds of questions may look like softballs, but can be very hard to answer on the spot if you're not prepared!
- December 2, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Prepare for questions about grants and other outside funding. It's not something that philosophers usually consider, but it is becoming an important factor at some institutions.
- December 2, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Fab questions. Thanks a bunch.
How long are those interviews on average? (Am I a complete idiot to ask this question?)
- December 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM
A question for folks who've interviewed in the last couple years: How often have you been asked for a dissertation spiel? I've heard that it's not as common these days for SC to ask for the spiel as it used to be.
- December 2, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Did people see this:
- December 3, 2009 at 1:53 AM
Also wanted to add: Be prepared for surprises.
My university thought they were preparing us for interviews, but they were preparing us for the interviews they would run--which were all about research, as they saw it.
They had the dumbest--absolutely the dumbest--teaching prep questions.
- December 3, 2009 at 1:54 AM
To add to Anon 12:46's useful observations about specific versus general research questions:
In an interview with an R1 school a couple of years ago, I was talking to three profs who had no idea what my research field is about, but for some reason they thought they did. So they kept asking what they thought were biting questions, and my response was always of the form "Well, that's an ill-formed (or simply non-sensical) question because X." Needless to say, they didn't appreciate that reply, and they tended to cut me off before I even finished my reply, just to ask another equal odd question.
The funny thing is, there was one prof in the department who had done work in a related area, but she wasn't on the committee and apparently they hadn't asked her about the field, or what questions to ask me.
So they thought they were asking technical questions, but my replies had to get down to foundational issues that I hadn't thought much about for a long time.
- December 3, 2009 at 8:04 AM
Xenaphon's and 12:46's are probably the most helpful comments so far. (The list is great, btw.)
Bear in mind that even if you're interviewing at R1 schools, there's a high likelihood that you will be interviewing with people who are only tangentially familiar with your AOS. One reason they may be hiring someone with your AOS is because they don't already have someone with your profile or they are weak in that area. What this means is that you need to find a way to make your answers to their research questions relevant to their interests, clear enough to them that they can follow your position and not think that you're completely insane (this happens), resonant with the needs of the department, and transparently cogent enough that they'll find you to be the emerging expert in your field without thinking that you're so deeply ensconced that you can't dig out of the technical jargon.
The latter bit may be less true at non-R1 schools, but I suspect everyone will want to see that you're deeply familiar with your AOS and capable of relating your core thesis in a succinct and approachable way.
Plus, and this is a biggie: you've gotta show that you can address, accept, or at least grapple with their pet issues. Xenaphon is correct: to downplay the significance of your interviewer's core concerns is a surefire way to lose an invitation to the party.
- December 3, 2009 at 8:30 AM
A question for folks who've interviewed in the last couple years: How often have you been asked for a dissertation spiel? I've heard that it's not as common these days for SC to ask for the spiel as it used to be.
I was asked for it in every single one of my interviews (10+, if you want to know my sample size). You definitely have to be prepared with that. Plus, it's good practice: you really do get asked about what you work on very frequently in your early career, at conferences, meeting new people, etc.
And I second what's been said: be prepared to answer foundational questions, and for goodness sakes, take the interviewers' questions seriously! Even if their question is technically ill-formed, given the intricacies of your field, they are asking it because there's some real worry behind it. "It's hard to formulate your exact question in this field, but I think what you're getting at is..." is much better than "That question is ill-formed." Alternatively, you can say why it relates to foundational questions - what it is about the field and its assumptions that makes the question ill-formed - and then talk about what you think about the assumptions of the field. Treat every question as a way to teach someone something interesting about your topic.
Also: search committees aren't necessarily trying to "stump" you or ask "biting" questions: they are trying to learn more about your work / your field / you by having a philosophical conversation (which, of course, often includes objections). Their goal is to hire someone, not to prove to themselves that you are not worthy. Don't treat them like the enemy.
- December 3, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Although we have an opening and are interviewing, my insistuion is being very selective in hiring.
Don't be surprised if a question like this comes up -
"In these financially challenging times what skills or talents can contribute to the university as a whole?"
Provosts want the most bang for their buck.
- December 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM
A question for folks who've interviewed in the last couple years: How often have you been asked for a dissertation spiel? I've heard that it's not as common these days for SC to ask for the spiel as it used to be.
I've had about 10 APA interviews (over a few years). I have never once been asked to give my spiel.
- December 3, 2009 at 2:31 PM
I'm the person who said I had to give my spiel every time in 10+ interviews, so the comment from 2:31 surprises me. Maybe the difference is in primarily research vs. primarily teaching places? Almost all of my interviews were at research-oriented places. In fact, questions about teaching were usually consigned to the last 10-15 minutes of the interview, if they were asked at all (in one interview, we talked about my writing sample the entire time). So maybe the real answer is that in this, as in everything, it depends on the school. (But you should have your spiel ready just in case, anyway!)
- December 3, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Maybe this question calls for a new thread, but I'll pose it anyway. Do schools ever worry about a candidate's being overqualified? Hypothetically, (cough) suppose one thought one's self to have a good shot at an APA interview for, say Duke, but failed to get an APA interview at, say, Sam Houston State...is it time to abandon hope, or plead overqualification?
- December 4, 2009 at 1:49 AM
I'm the person who has never given the spiel. I think that you are correct that research schools will be more likely to ask for the spiel than teaching schools. But, you can be asked research questions and not be asked for the spiel. Indeed, at one interview (decent MA program) the first question I was asked, "How will you contribute to interdisciplinary research at [our university]?" Moral: not all research interviews warm you up by asking you to rehearse your spiel.
I think that many of us are tempted to think that all hiring institutions can be ordinally ranked (by philosophical goodness? by desirability of position?) and that all candidates can be ordinally ranked, and that the ideal distribution of candidates to jobs would just match the two lists. Then, any deviation from the ideal mapping would be an injustice of some sort, attributable to some sort of practical-reasoning fallacies on the parts of hiring committees.
There are several errors in such presuppositions. How a candidate fits at a particular school is paramount to the process. Someone better at some aspects of a job (say getting published in highly regarded journals) may not be better at other aspects (say teaching philosophy of film, or attracting students to the major, or getting along with the dean, or being a promising candidate to chair the department in a few years). I suppose that some few schools (yer Princetons, yer NYUs) look to rank candidates by acumen and grab the top ones. But, in my limited experience, many schools are looking for a fit, not the highest ranking schmuck on the list, and they know that fact.
I'm not claiming that committees don't make errors. Only: the fact that a school interviews someone with less, say, raw philosophical talent (whatever that might be) than you is no indication that there is any injustice (or even unpredictability) in the process.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:41 AM
Anon 7:41--You're right, of course, and I kind of felt like a schmuck immediately after posting that comment. I absolutely don't feel that any injustice has been done, it was just a surprise and got me a little nervous. I should be clear: I'm not at all confident that I'll land a job this year, TT or otherwise, despite having applied as broadly as possible. So I got nervous and posted a silly question that I quickly wished I could unpost. Thank you for your response, though, you are quite right.
- December 4, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Over the years, I must have had at least 30 APA interviews and don't ever remember NOT being asked for my dissertation spiel. Have one ready, without doubt.
- December 5, 2009 at 5:17 PM
I was told by an interviewee last year that s/he was asked, "Do you have a Facebook account?". Now there's an interesting one, especially if one does...
- December 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM
The question I've always asked (because it was asked of me during my dissertation defense) is "how is your research enterprise of worth to people outside of that very narrow topic and/or outside of philosophy?"
- December 12, 2009 at 10:53 AM
- R. Kevin Hill said...
Since you were kind enough to cite me, a follow-up. The "how would you teach intro" question is also best responded to by *handing* them a syllabus right then, even if you mailed them one already.
I cannot emphasize enough the similarities among, and differences between, how one is asked about research at research job and teaching job interviews: one must have *two* shtiks (and know who one is talking to--we are 4th tier but care a great deal about research). The research job answer to "tell us about your research" should put you in dissertation defense mode--the interviewer will attack, but not necessarily knowledgeably, and the same ploys (topic steering, allusions to vast secondary literature) that work in a defense work here, though the key is to be in control of your material of course.
The teaching job is not really interested in your research, and responding in the above way (which is how most useless job market prep at your home institution is oriented) will kill you by making you seem boring, and thus a boring, and thus, incompetent, teacher. Here the key is to enable the interviewer to peg you quickly, while anticipating standard stereotyping reactions that operate on a much more general level (for example, if your topic were something in Husserl, a follow-up question might be some punditesque complaint directed at a stereotype of all Continental philosophy where "Continental philosophy" is third-hand Derrida as written about by a Republican journalist, say; similarly, your "question" if you are working in analytic metaphysics might be "how do you respond to the objection that philosophy has lost touch with the people and wisdom?"). This means responding should be *easy* if you aren't blindsided by the question's irrelevance and stupidity. But far more important in the teaching interview is *demeanor*--they want you to get in and out of the question quickly, cocktail party style, while manifesting enormous *enthusiasm* for talking about philosophy. The assumption is, if you're excited, you'll be exciting, and exciting means charismatic teaching. Most teaching interviews go badly because the candidate takes so long setting up the project that they've bored the interviewer to death before they can ask a follow-up question, and the demeanor is cold and defensive, raising doubts about teaching charisma and colleagiality.
On the research interview, especially the on-campus interactions: sometimes it is best to respond to a really tough question not by being evasive and tying yourself in knots trying to seem like you have an answer, but to simply concede that the question is a deep and serious one you've been thinking about for a long time and have no answer to as yet. This shows seriousness, and at the same time flatters the vanity of the interviewer.
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There are 45 tables set up down in Exhibit Hall C of the Woodley Park Marriott in Washington, D.C., a hotel roughly the size of the Pentagon. Each table has a black tablecloth, a Diamond Anniversary Edition Scrabble board, a crushed velvet tile bag, two racks, four all-purpose banquet chairs (able to switch effortlessly between weddings and wheat lobbyist conferences), and a hard plastic digital game clock with two square blue buttons that make the thing look like a Soviet-era nuclear launch device.
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My grandmother and grandfather taught me to play. They belonged to a pool club down in Florida. Like many pool clubs, this joint had a 15-minute adult-swim period every hour, which I thought was the greatest injustice in human history. Sometimes no adults went in the pool during adult swim, which was a total waste. To help me pass the time before I could go in the pool again, my grandma would whip out her Scrabble board—a weather-beaten old board with magnetic tiles and metal racks that had corroded after years of being used in the salty sea air—and teach me to play. She let me look up stuff. She let me re-play the blanks if I had the corresponding letter. She awarded 10- and 20-point bonuses for five- and six-letter words, respectively. And she let me drink all the virgin piña coladas I wanted.
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"It is?"
"Oh goodness, yes."
I looked it up in the dictionary and there it was, with the italicized disclaimer vulgar next to it. I played it, even though it didn't give me a great point total. But I never forgot that word. Whenever I see it now, I think of my grandma. It's very sweet.
I learned about all the weird two-letter words (XU, XI, KA, etc.) and all the weird Q words that didn't need a U (QOPH, QAID, etc.). Sometimes, I kept playing even after adult swim had ended. In the beginning my grandparents would help form words for me, even let me win. But soon, I didn't need help. I began beating them on my own. I always wanted to play again (especially after winning), but they'd usually had their fill by then. I would be really into the game, happy to play four or five times a day. I would replay the games in my head at night, smiling to myself at any seven-letter word I threw down on my grandma.
In that way, Scrabble is like any other kind of all-consuming game. If you've ever been bolted to a blackjack table for nine hours straight, or if you've ever spent an entire weekend playing Call of Duty, you know that certain games aren't so much addictive as they are magnetic. They exert a remarkable pull on your mind. You can get up to take a break, because you know you really ought to take a break, but you know, deep in your heart, that you never really want to stop. Ever. A recent MIT study of gamblers found that gamblers care more about playing the game than they do about winning or losing money:
"The thing people never understand is that I'm not playing to win," Mollie told Schull. Instead, Mollie's goal was to enter a state of total gambling immersion: "to keep playing — to stay in that machine zone where nothing else matters."
That makes sense, when you think about it. If you really CARED about losing money, you'd stop. But gamblers don't stop because they just want to play. It's not losing that kills them. It's anything that gets in the way of their flow: a shuffle break, a slow player, a terrorist attack, etc. They abhor distractions.
There are some people on whom these games cast a momentary spell. I'm one of those kinds of people. When we would come home from my grandma's house, I'd forget all about Scrabble. I'd be more into stealing pornography or playing Mega Man 3 or whatever else happened to catch my attention at the time. I only got really pulled into the game a few times a year. But obviously, there are people—Scrabble players and chess players and poker players alike—for whom the spell lasts much longer. These are people who become obsessed. Permanently. You probably have an image in your mind of a kind of autistic hobo: brilliant and rumpled and talented and eccentric and brash at the table but shy away from it and definitely MALE. Probably not the greatest-smelling guy in the world. Those are the Bobby Fischers. The true obsessives. The people who never snap out of it. And players like that tend to be forged in the crucible of youth competitions like the one I went to last Friday.
That's the central conundrum facing the tournament organizers: How do you stage a tourney like this and avoid creating the sort of precociously competitive little monsters who populate youth chess tournaments and AYSO games, under the gaze of their similarly monstrous parents? How do you nurture genius like Andy Hoang's without warping it?
"We learned what not to do from the Spelling Bee," says John Williams. Williams is the executive director of the National Scrabble Association and one of the masterminds behind this tournament. He and his colleagues went to great lengths to dream up a competition that didn't parade individual kids up onto a stage to risk abject humiliation, the kind of pressure cooker that makes the Scripps National Spelling Bee both compelling and horrifying all at once. Hence, a team competition, where two teammates are free to openly strategize with each other (only when it's their turn, though. If you ain't on the clock, you zip it).
And the NSSC is also open to children of all skill levels. There are Scrabble prodigies in this hall, to be certain. But because the popularity of youth Scrabble is still relatively low (certainly compared with the Bee), there's also room for kids who are still learning the basic rules of the game. Some of refs here—they have zebra-striped shirts and everything—help the beginners out, and the kids can go past the clock if they feel like it.
When I walk into the hotel to find the exhibit hall where the tourney was happening (took me about three hours to figure it out), there are kids in homemade Scrabble team shirts (Sample motto: SERVING UP TILES AND SMILES) running up and down the hallways and sprinting up the down escalators, a move I still have the urge to pull at 36 years old. All the trappings of normal childhood are out in the open. The kids are so rambunctious, in fact, that they have to be shushed into silence before the second round begins in the main gaming room. John Chew, co-president of the North American Scrabble Players Association, raises his voice to get everyone to shut up, just like a frustrated principal would.
"Quiet in the back, please!"
The kids settle down and Chew runs through a few items before play can resume.
"Make sure your results are checked by one of the officials. Also, when drawing tiles, PLEASE make sure the opening of your bag is at eye level or higher, so that you cannot see into the bag. If you see your opponent doing something wrong, please raise your hand and ask one of the officials, 'Is that OK?' If you need to, please raise your hand for an official to quiet people down."
Chew also notes that three-time national champion Joe Edley is in the house this afternoon. He will be conducting a free seminar called "Building Intuition," which probably could have benefited from a more exciting title.
"Also," Chew notes, "there will be an ice cream social this evening, featuring ice cream and more Scrabble! Now, you may begin playing."
At that announcement, I hear the clicking of three dozen tile bags being shaken simultaneously. The teams were very loosely pre-ranked coming into this competition to prevent mismatches. As the tourney advances through seven rounds, the highest scoring teams are moved to the lowest-numbered tables, while the novices get to compete against each other at the higher-numbered tables toward the back, like the lowest tier of friends and family at a big wedding. At Table 1, there is always a match between two top-rated teams. That match is simulcasted on the Internet, with two volunteers logging every move on their laptops and posting them for thousands of Scrabble fanboys following online, some "watching" from as far as Australia and Pakistan.
"You'll notice the difference in gameplay as we walk toward the front," Williams tells me as we stroll around the room, and he's right. Toward the back, there are more basic words. Shorter words (no c-bombs, though; curse words were struck from the home player's dictionary in 1996). And many of the boards are packed tightly, in a diagonal pattern, leaving whole regions of the board fallow and unavailable for play. This can happen with good players as well, but they're usually more adept at keeping the board loose and open. Which is good, because getting stuck with a tight board sucks.
Toward the front, I make out a lot of seven- and eight-letter bingos. Some of them are real, like THuNDERY—the lowercase letter denotes where a blank was used—and MINSTER (a large or important church). But others are phonies that go unchallenged, like PIMPERS (kudos to the kids who had the sack to throw that down), BINTERS, and ?ARAINS. That question mark denotes a blank. I have no clue what letter the blank is supposed to be, and I don't think the team playing it does either. You can challenge bullshit words like this by escorting your opponent over to one of the computer stations dotted throughout the room and entering the word into a program, which automatically spits out a curt, "No! The play is UNACCEPTABLE!" if the word is a phony. But if no one calls your bluff, it counts.
This can be a problem when experienced players are matched up with teams that aren't up to their skill level, Williams tells me. While not as cutthroat as other youth competitions, Williams says, there can be some occasional bullying at the NSSC. "These more experienced kids will sometimes just throw down eye charts, and the younger kids are too scared to call them on it," he says. Williams also recalled one talented all-boy team that went into brainlock against a team of two flirty eighth-grade lasses. Hard to think of a bingo when you've got puberty to contend with.
"We do have some stage parents. Not many," Williams says ruefully. And it's easy to see why. You can do your best to make your tournament inclusive. You can even include a sportsmanship award, as this event does. But some overzealous parents will still find a way to screw it all up. The NSSC does its best to marginalize their presence. Parents are allowed to watch the action only from a group of banquet chairs along the side of the room. They aren't allowed to raise their voices, and they most definitely aren't allowed to look over their kid's shoulder and be like, "Play ZIGGURAT or I will murder you." That would get you the gate.
But if you're a parent looking to indulge your inner micromanager, there are still plenty of opportunities for you to do so. Right outside the main playing hall is another room that has all the tourney results projected on a huge scrim. I took a blurry picture of it:
Trust me, it's just as overwhelming in person. You need cyborg eyes to process all of the information. After each round, the kids and parents come sprinting out to see how they're doing. Teams that have played their way into the top ten get a green square. Teams that haven't get a red square. It's not fun having a red square. "The board was really tight," I hear one kid lament to his mom. Another kid makes a hand puppet on the projection and giggles.
Back in the main hall, the games continue. Each team has 25 minutes to make all their moves, but the good teams are finishing up with plenty of time remaining on the clock. Williams walks with me and soon Chew joins us. Chew is also in charge of running the National Scrabble Championship, which is the big adult tournament. As you might have guessed, that is NOT a tourney that gets all niced down, like this one. This year, the adult tourney will be taking place in Vegas.
"Vegas LOVES the Scrabble players," Williams says. "Because the second they leave the tournament, they're at the tables." Williams recalled having to personally wrest a pro from the blackjack tables to get him back for a match on time. Chew tells me it's difficult for tourney organizers to settle on a hotel for the grownup tourney because Scrabble pros can be rather ... particular ... about their accommodations. Some (actually, many) want a cheap hotel. Some want a family-friendly hotel. Some want less gambling. Some want more. "These folks come to the tournament and are overwhelmed by all the people they see that love this one thing that they also love," Chew says. "But then they realize that Scrabble is the ONLY thing they have in common, and that's not enough."
It's my turn to play soon. My friend Stefan Fatsis has arranged for me to play the top-seeded team of Sam Masling and Thomas Draper. Fatsis is the best-selling author of Word Freak, and he is here today to coach his daughter, a fifth grader whose team is ranked third overall. Fatsis also coaches Masling and Draper, and he has assured me that they will beat my ass. "You're going to look like that Bear Grylls dude, except not just your ankle," he emails me before the tourney.
I could use a practice round before getting crushed by a seventh grader and an eighth grader, so I wander out of the main hall, looking for Fatsis so that we can play a practice match. But Fatsis is already locked in an unsanctioned battle against Andy Hoang. Hoang, a shy Vietnamese boy from Cary, N.C., was on the winning team last year. As a high school freshman, he has exhausted his eligibility, so he's here today as a coach for his two brothers. Later this year, he'll be in Vegas for the big boy tournament.
Hoang beats Fatsis by over 200 points, then quickly packs up the board and leaves the area.
I ask Fatsis for a warmup match but he declines. Taking Hoang's and Fatsis's place at the table are Edley and fellow Scrabble pro Brian Galebach.
"Watch them play to warm up," Fatsis says to me.
"I can only watch? That blows."
"Just watch and learn."
Edley and Galebach start off slow, with a closed-off diagonal board that looks a lot like the ones I saw at the high-numbered tables. Even bad tiles happen to good people. But after a few more turns, the bingos start raining down. Galebach puts down TENNISES.
"That's a legit word?" I ask.
"Pretty much all sports can be pluralized," Galebach says. "Even CURLINGS, which, as a curler, I find to be absurd."
It's Edley's turn now. He shows his rack to me, the tiles arranged in alphabetical order.
"Do you see the bingo?" he asks me.
I squint at his rack real hard. "Nope, I can't see it."
Three seconds later, he puts down BONFIRES.
"Do you play against any of the kids?" I ask Edley.
"Do you ever let them win?"
After watching Galebach and Edley trade a few more body blows, I head back into the main hall, where the third round of play is dying down. The recycled air in the hall is getting staler by the moment, and you can feel the place dragging.
And then, over in the corner, I see Andy, dressed like a businessman in a blue Oxford shirt, with blue trousers and shiny black shoes. He's all alone, hunched over a board by one of the promotional tables, near a framed rejection letter from the Milton Bradley company to Scrabble inventor Alfred Butts and three shockingly heavy trophies for first through third place. I see Andy meticulously arranging all of the tiles on the board.
"Are you playing yourself?" I ask.
"I'm just re-creating last year's finals," he says. He does not look up to talk to me. "Did you see me win? It was one of my most nerve-wracking matches."
"I didn't, I'm sorry to say. So, you memorized this?"
"This match and the 2009 Finals." Hoang's team won that tourney as well.
"Why did you memorize them?"
"I do it because it's fun. It reminds me of good times."
"So you can sort of recapture the memory?"
He shakes his head. "It's just fun."
"Did your parents teach you to play?"
"No, I learned in elementary school."
Andy finishes off the board and tears off two pieces of scrap paper. On one scrap, he writes:
On the other:
He props the two little scraps of paper up on the board and then runs off, leaving it there. He's like Banksy fleeing the scene after painting something incredible on the side of bridge. I stand in front of the board, jaw agape. And then I do what I imagine Andy intended for me to do: I point out his masterpiece to other people.
"Did you see this?" I ask one of the officials.
"What is it?"
"Andy memorized last year's final."
"No, he didn't. OH MY GOODNESS." She stares at the board in shock.
At the other end of the room, Andy joins up with his brothers and his father, a slender man named Danny who emigrated from Vietnam when he was 13 years old. I ask Danny what it's like to watch his kids play in the tourney.
"Very intense," he says. "I stay away." He holds up both hands and makes a pushing motion. He can see the intensity in his children's eyes when they play, and he doesn't want to break it.
It's my turn now. The third round is over and the tournament won't resume again until the morning. At around 5:30 p.m., the top-ranked team of Masling and Draper come to Table 1 for our little exhibition match. Sam is an eighth grader from nearby Friendship Heights. Thomas, who lost to Andy in the final last year, is a seventh grader from New Jersey. Fatsis tells me that I'll be playing them as a team.
"How come I don't get a teammate?" I ask.
"That's just how it is," Fatsis says.
"Oh, this is crap. I'm gonna get murdered."
The two boys have a laugh at my complaints. Frankly, I'm in a no-win situation. If I lose, I'm a loser. If I win, I'm the heartless bastard who beat two middle schoolers. Sam's mother agrees with my assessment.
"Oh, you have to lose," she says, laughing.
"I know, I know."
But then we draw tiles and I find that I have a bingo right at the start: FlOWERS. I put it down and suddenly I have an 82-0 lead. Then I draw the Q and the Z simultaneously and put down QUIZ to take a 124-24 lead. I'm crushing it. I'm killing it. I am killcrushslaying these kids. I have no interest in decorum anymore. The game has me. I want to win because I want to win.
And then it all goes to shit. Sam and Thomas play two phonies—ADJEcT and BEBES—and I'm too cowardly to challenge them. THEY PLAYED DIRTY! I'm such a moron, I try to educate them on a word that I don't even know is fake.
"I don't think you can pluralize ADJECT," I say to Sam.
"Yeah, probably not."
"But you CAN add -IVE. That makes ADJECTIVE, you know!"
Turn by turn, they eat into my cushion. I find I have seven-letter words but nowhere to put them, which makes me want to die. I lay down stupid four-letter words like YOUR and DORK. Finally, the kids put down NIDATES ("to become implanted in the uterus") for 70 points and I'm done for good. I choke like a Washington Capital and lose by more than 60 points.
But neither Thomas nor Sam is the type to gloat. They thank me for the game and skip off to go be wonderfully regular middle schoolers for the rest of the evening. The next day, with the remaining 87 teams watching, they will lose in the finals to the team of Raymond Gao and Kevin Bowerman, the game turning on a cheap ZA and a phony bingo (ELOPEEs) that Thomas and Sam fail to challenge. If only they had ADJECTED it. By losing in the finals, Thomas and Sam miss out on a $10,000 grand prize and a chance to play against Jimmy Kimmel on national television.
Thomas and Sam and Kevin and Raymond are all good enough to compete with the grownups, and perhaps they'll beat them one day. But to become adult champions, to compete with the Joe Edleys of the world, they may have to jettison the majority of their other interests. They may have to give into the game, to let Scrabble fully colonize their minds. And who knows if that's something they or their parents want. Maybe the parents like their children to be more "normal."
The tournament is wrestling with a central paradox of being a parent. You want your kids to be extraordinary, but not so extraordinary that they feel as if they have no place in the world. You want them to fit in. You want them to be normal, although who the hell knows what normal really is, or if it even exists.
Every parent wants his or her kid to be great at something. That's only natural. But it's also natural to read Word Freak and hear John Williams talk about the assorted cast of rogues who populate the grownup tournament and worry that your kid will love Scrabble TOO much, that they'll end up consumed by a game, one day fleeing to Iceland and writing anti-Semitic screeds on rolls of toilet paper. I ask Fatsis, who has spent a great deal of the day stressing to me how normal these kids are, if he's worried that his daughter will like the game too much.
"No," he says. "I don't even know what 'too much' means in the life of a well-rounded kid with lots of options and responsible parents. An hour or two a day studying words and playing Scrabble? Fine by me. There aren't that many things at which a kid can be truly great, when compared just to other kids or to adults, too. So why not be great at this? Why not learn to love language, stretch your brain, solve a puzzle every couple minutes, strive to win, learn to lose—and kick the occasional adult butt in the process?"
When I get home, I tell my 7-year-old that I played (and lost) a game of Scrabble to a couple of middle-school kids.
"Can I play?" she asks.
"Sure," I say.
Then I bust out the board and see where the game takes us.
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Q&A with Senior Swimmer Julius Espiritu
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Already a three-time NCAA Championship participant, senior swimmer Julius Espiritu will be making his fourth trip to the national meet next week as part of a 27-athlete (12 men, 15 women) UC San Diego contingent in Birmingham, AL. The Campbell, CA native owns all-time UCSD top 10 times in both the 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke and was part of the school record 800 freestyle relay at last year's NCAA meet. He's also one of the team captains and head coach Matt Macedo values what Espiritu brings both in and out of the pool. "Julius was an incredible addition to this program and will be greatly missed when he completes his senior season next week," said Macedo. "He's grown as an athlete but even more as a leader since arriving in the fall of 2009. He's naturally quiet, but he's always worked hard and since becoming a captain after his sophomore year, his vocal leadership has really complimented that hard work." On the eve of his final collegiate competition, Espiritu took time to talk about the NCAA experience, his team and his time at UC San Diego.
Q-What does it mean to you, making a fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA Championships?
ESPIRITU-It means a lot to me, and makes me appreciate all of the hard work that I've put in every year. It was my goal entering my first season to make Nationals all four years and to do it is a great way to end my swimming career.
Q-You've been to Canton, OH, San Antonio, TX and then Mansfield, TX for the national meet. Are you looking forward to Birmingham, AL?
ESPIRITU-I am definitely looking forward to being in Birmingham, mostly because it will be a totally new experience for me! Neither I nor anyone I have spoken to has been to Birmingham before, so I am going into this with an open mind. I expect that the food will be phenomenal, as it always is at nationals.
Q-What is your fondest memory to date of the NCAA Championships?
ESPIRITU-The last night of nationals, the team goes out to dinner with the parents and alumni to celebrate the end of the season. All of the graduating seniors give a farewell speech, and last year's speeches were particularly emotional for me because I had spent the last three years with that class and it was sad to see them done with swimming. That is probably my fondest memory out of the pool. My fondest memory in the pool would probably be during last year's 800 freestyle relay. It was a rough race for me but we finished with a school record.
Q-The swimming & diving team typically sends a sizeable contingent to the NCAAs-do you have any interesting traditions associated with the national championships?
ESPIRITU-The team always gets together the Saturday morning before we leave to have breakfast as a group, usually at the Canyon Vista dining hall. This serves as a "farewell" for those who are leaving for nationals and as the final team gathering of the season for those who didn't qualify.
We also have a tradition for the final session of the meet, which is wearing Hawaiian shirts. Most teams at the meet are not from warm areas, and wearing Hawaiian shirts allows us to be goofy and show off the fact that we are tan and from a warm area of the country.
Q-What events are you planning to swim this year? How would you describe your prospects in each?
ESPIRITU-This year, I'm swimming the 200 and 400 medley relays, the 100 and 200 freestyles, and the 100 backstroke. We always want to win relays, but a top three finish would be solid. All of the seed times are really close, so the relays are up for grabs. For my individual events, I'm seeded out of the top 16, but hopefully I can drop some time and score some points.
Q-The men's team finished second last year in Mansfield and the women were third. What kind of results do you expect from this year's teams?
ESPIRITU-Our goal at the beginning of the season was to win a national championship, and that hasn't changed. As long as we swim to our potential and swim as hard as we can, we will do great and the season will be a success.
Q-Who would be an individual on each team that your are excited to see perform in Birmingham?
ESPIRITU-On the men's side I'm most excited to see Adam Rice, a fellow senior, swim this year. Every year he trains like a champ and then drops an insane amount of time at nationals, which I know he will do this year. On the women's side I'm really excited to see another fellow senior, Amber Tan, swim at nationals. She's been having her best year training-wise and it showed at our dual meets and at conference. Honestly I'm just really excited to see my fellow seniors dominate at our last collegiate meet.
Q-Besides the caliber of swimming, what else is different about the national meet compared to an average competition?
ESPIRITU-There are many things that make nationals different from the average meet, but the thing that is most salient to me is the presence of our alumni. We have people who have been coming to nationals for decades as alumni, along with those who have recently graduated, and their presence brings a whole new atmosphere of support that helps us swim fast!
Q-You're one of UCSD's team captains. As a senior, how do you approach that role and what do you hope to provide for your teammates?
ESPIRITU-I just try to use my past experiences to lead the team. I have learned so much from past captains and upperclassmen, and their actions have shaped the kind of leader that I have become. So as a senior I try to lead by example and hopefully provide a benchmark for the next generation of upperclassmen.
Q-What is the most rewarding and most difficult aspect of being team captain?
ESPIRITU-I think that the most rewarding aspect of being one of the team captains is knowing that my teammates trust me and look up to me enough to help lead them throughout the season. There's really nothing too difficult about the job though. I enjoy the team too much to take anything too seriously or find anything difficult.
Q-You've listed the Oakland Raiders and Los Angeles Lakers as your two favorite sports teams. Those two don't usually go together. How does that work for you?
ESPIRITU-I've received this question many times in the past, and many people are quick to label me as a bandwagon (most recently in reference to the Lakers since the Raiders have been terrible). But the truth is, I've always been drawn to these teams ever since I started watching sports. Neither of my parents really favored sports teams, so I was free to choose my own favorites without any influence or bias.
Q-You've been quoted as saying you could eat pizza "your entire life." What's on your "go-to" pie and where in San Diego can one find the best pizzas?
ESPIRITU-My go-to pizza is definitely meat lover's. When I was a kid I hated vegetables, so naturally I went for meat lover's, and it's been my favorite ever since. The best pizza that I've had by campus is Regents Pizzeria, but if you don't mind the longer drive then I think Woodstock's Pizza in PB takes the cake. I could definitely eat Woodstock's pizza for my entire life.
Q-As a psychology major at UCSD's Sixth College you've got your eye on eventually being a marriage and family counselor. What drew you to that field and what's been the most interesting part of your studies?
ESPIRITU-I know too many people who have been affected by divorce and similar issues, and I feel like I can really use my strengths in this field. The most interesting part of my studies has definitely been the abnormal side of psychology, which deals with clinical disorders and prevention strategies for those disorders.
Q-What is the psychological profile of the average swimmer?
ESPIRITU-I would say that the average swimmer has high levels of motivation, with some anxiety and confidence mixed in. What separates average swimmers from top-tier swimmers is the ability to cope with the anxiety and replace that with monumental amounts of confidence.
Q-Who has the most interesting personality on the swimming & diving team?
ESPIRITU-I'm going to have to pick one from the men's team and one from the women's team. There are so many to choose from, but from the men's team I would have to pick freshman Michael Leung. He does the best Bane (from the Dark Knight Rises) and Steve Irwin voice impressions, and is just a silly guy overall. On the women's side, I think senior Amber Tan has the most interesting personality. She's always the one to lighten the mood during practice or meets by randomly dancing or singing like no one's watching her.
Q-Looking back, what has been the most gratifying aspect of your four years at UC San Diego?
ESPIRITU-Without a doubt the most gratifying aspect of my time at UCSD has been the friendships I have made, especially with the people in my class. Our team is so close, which is a product of the combined men's and women's programs, something that not many teams have the luxury of doing. I have enjoyed every second of the ride and I wouldn't change anything, even if I could.
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Kirsten Willmon (Softball) February 17, 2013
Sebastian Brady (Men's Volleyball) February 7, 2013
Daisy Feder (Women's Basketball) January 21, 2013
Craig Elsten (UCSD Athletics Broadcaster) January 14, 2013
Beth Dong (Women's Swimming & Diving) December 3, 2012
Tyler McGrath (Men's Basketball) November 15, 2012
Danielle Dahle (Women's Volleyball) October 26, 2012
Jessica Wi (Women's Soccer) October 10, 2012
Elena Inouye (Women's Cross Country) October 1, 2012
Josh Stiling (Men's Water Polo) September 15, 2012
Alec Arsht (Men's Soccer) August 28, 2012
Amber Hawthorne (Women's Volleyball) August 13, 2012
Kristin Jones (Women's Soccer Assistant Coach) June 24, 2012
Nick Howe (Men's Track & Field) May 13, 2012
Kris Lesovsky (Softball) March 16, 2012
Danny Susdorf (Baseball) March 6, 2012
Sarah Lizotte (Women's Water Polo) February 9, 2012
Charity Elliott (Women's Basketball) January 31, 2012
Alex Henley (Women's Swimming & Diving) January 17, 2012
James McCann (Men's Basketball) December 29, 2011
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John Butler (Men's Water Polo) November 28, 2011
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Cory Wolfrom (Men's Soccer) October 26, 2011
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Jon Pascale (Men's Soccer) August 4, 2011
Vincent Nguyen (Tennis) July 1, 2011
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Ricci Luyties (Women's Volleyball Head Coach) August 24, 2010
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Kelly Fogarty (Women's Track & Field) April 23, 2010
Liz LaPlante (Women's Tennis Head Coach) April 15, 2010
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Rob Mamula (Director of Athletic Performance) June 18, 2009
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12 May 2013 - The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in France has informed WHO of an additional laboratory-confirmed case with infection of the novel coronavirus (nCoV).
This patient was identified as part of the epidemiological investigation initiated by the French authorities, following laboratory confirmation of the first case on 7 May 2013. The patient shared a hospital room in Valenciennes with the first laboratory-confirmed patient from 27 to 29 April 2013. The patient is currently hospitalized and isolated in an infectious disease hospital.
Among 120 persons identified as contacts of the first laboratory-confirmed case in France, laboratory tests were conducted by Pasteur Institute in Paris on five suspected cases, of which four tested negative, one (mentioned above) tested positive.
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Nars has a tropical collection together for the summer – documented here.
I went to see the collection a few days ago. The two products that stood out to me was Tropic Solo Eyeshadow, similar to the Night series, super glittery, and the lipgloss, a cool tones mauve with gold.
However, I am on a lip product ban, since I have far too many as it is. So I just bought Tropic:
Tropic is described as: Lush, silver-flecked teal – a precise image of the ocean's waves.
I have visions of Francoise Nars, cocktail in hand, lying on a sun lounger going, "yah, yah this inspires me, this greeny-bluey see, make it into an eyeshadow, yah?"
You may love or hate this. The night series is they kind of eyeshadow that needs a bit of work, a bit of understanding. In the words of Take That, have a little patience.
The colour itself if HAWT. A teal – a true, true teal, gorgeousness.
The pigmentation is good. I've read not very good comments online about this, but I personally have found this one very pigmented; more so than say, Night Fairy or the ones from the Christmas collection (Silent Night, the chunky gold).
The shadow itself, underneath the glitter (we'll get onto this is a moment) is MATTE. Matte seems to be in at the moment. I won't complain; a bit of change is good once in a while.
The glitter! Nars seems to have spent too much time at Hobbycraft* in the glitter section because this chunky glitter in tropic is like the stuff in Super Orgasm Blush, in Silent Night Eyeshadow and in Night Snow (off the top of my head).
I love glitter! I do. But even I have to concede, this is a little too dance troupe.
*UK craft superstore that old people and uncreative young people who think they are creative go to.
"Do you like your card? I made it myself"
"I can tell! It's sh*t!"
I had a make over at the Nars counter with the cutest MUA ever, but even she couldn't avoid the masses of fall out. Sigh.
I would still recommend this if you:
1. Love Nars
2. Like Glitter
3. Like Teal
4. Are part of a dance group, the kind that does shows purely for family members who attend out of feeling guilty.


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Released at the ending of last year, LEGO has made a really awesome job on what I would call as probably the best set from the whole Super Heroes line and also the biggest set of my entire Lego collection. But for most of the people it is also known as the "Arkham Asylum Breakout".
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- And Harley's secret room.
As I said before, the whole set is very, very, very detailed, since building gargoyles, to building the moss on the walls, to the gates of the main entrance, to the asylum itself. It took me several hours to put all the bricks together, and I gotta admit that I enjoyed every single second of it. It was a really fun set to build.
The Asylum features a pretty awesome gothic décor, and dark tone, that makes me want to congratulate the creator in person. That was really clever.
It is composted in 3 separated pieces: The right piece contains the cells. The Middle one, the security reception, and the medical treatment room. And the left one, Harleen Quinzel's office and Harley's room. And you can put them together in the way that you prefer. (Personally, I kept it the way it is).
The minifigures are very well made, and very detailed, most of them have back printing and double sided face. I think that Lego made the right choice of the characters to put in this set, considering that villains like Scarecrow, Penguin, and Harleen Quinzel are fan favorite characters. So, that's another thing that makes me congratulate Lego for this set. If only they had included a James Gordon figure instead of a random guard.............
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