Category: School Stuff
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Summer Break
I realize that this is the first time in ten years of teaching that I’ve had a summer break. I think most folks assume that teachers have a summer “break” since some of us don’t teach (at least those who don’t have mid-year classes to teach) but really, there’s a lot to do during summer.…
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FAQs Asked to the New Grad Student Who Moved Halfway Across the World
After being in Pittsburgh for a couple of weeks, I’ve noticed that every day feels like a press conference: you will always be answering questions. Sometimes, the questions are coming from a place of care and concern. Other times, the questions are there because the other person really doesn’t know what to say. Having been…
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Pressing the Big Red Button
In the first Christmas special of the rebooted Doctor Who in 2005/2006 (I can’t quite remember when it was first broadcast), David Tennant — playing the freshly-regenerated Tenth Doctor for the first time in his pajamas and robe and with his hair all sticking up — talks about a big red button. Granted, he was…
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2009 vs. 2019
I didn’t plan these photos, but it seems apt to pull a 2009 photo from when I was living in Singapore, and a 2019 photo from when I visited Singapore earlier this year for a conference. I was 25 years old when the first photo was taken, and obviously after ten years, I think I…
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Semester in Review: Sem 2, AY 2018-2019
Oh boy. This semester kicked my ass so hard. I knew, historically, that the second semester is usually much harder than the first, simply because there was less time to rest between the first and second semesters. On top of that, I also knew that I would have to prepare for a number of things:…
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Semester in Review: Sem 2, AY 2017-2018
It’s been awhile, I know. Trust me when I say that I would have loved to update this space in a more regular manner, but this semester just kicked my butt in a most violent and exhausting manner. Hopefully, by keeping track of what happens every semester (if I remember to do this kind of…
Sometimes Sunlight 