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I’m no paragon of the spoken word, as anyone who knows me can verify, but it always amuses me when I hear students — not just undergrads, grads and everyone in between — using filler words in their speech. “Like” I can understand; it’s an unconscious filler word, like “um,” “uh,” and all the rest.…

This afternoon while I was waiting for the bus, I saw a couple of undergrad-looking guys, one toting what looked like a box containing a router and the other some other kind of electronic doohickey in a Toshiba box, and knew beyond a doubt that the influx has officially gotten into high gear. The students…

[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] Well, it looks like this one saw me full of anxieties about leaving San Francisco for Ann Arbor: Overwhelmed Scenes from a farewell dinner for Frank with his colleagues:…