I had Folder Review this morning, which went well, I think. It was my first time working with L, one of the directors. We chatted before and we are always friendly, and I did ask for her feedback for my past assignment question. But I never really worked with her. She was perfectly nice and helpful. I've been teaching this class for a while so I'm ( Read more... )

I went to work yesterday. The students were discussing the first reading - or more accurately, I was asking them questions trying to get them to read closely and think about details of the text, of who the authors are and who is the intended audience of the reading. The second class has more kids willing to talk, which makes a better discussion ( Read more... )

It's Labor Day weekend(3 day weekend) and I'm spending about 7 hours at home before traveling again. Tanya and I went to my parents this past week and just got back at 9am. And around 4pm, Bear, Tanya and I will travel to his parents' house in Long Island to stay until Monday. And then Tuesday morning, Tanya and I will go back to my parents for one ( Read more... )

30 Days of Me Meme

Day 20: Your feelings about education and schoolEducation and school has always been important. My whole family went to college so it wasn't even a question that I would attend. I always loved school and looked forward to it. A lot of my self image is tied to being good a school and a straight A student. And ever since I was ( Read more... )

30 Days of Me Meme

Day 16: What is in your purse or walletI have one of those over the shoulder small bags instead of a purse and it really just fits wallet, glasses, keys, lipstick and occasionally phone. And a bunch of receipts find their way there ( Read more... )

My semester is officially done ( Read more... )

This week was an easy week workwise. Not a lot of grading, mostly just lessons on outlines and topic sentences and thesis. We started a new reading on Thursday and it just happened to be Tim Wu on the very day FCC made a net neutrality ruling.(Yay on that) Of course, none of my students knew the term nor bothered to read the news, so we spent some ( Read more... )

Today at work, we discussed the new reading - Ethan Watters "The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan". As part of the homework, the students had to make up a vocabulary list of words they don't know and post it in a Drop Box on the class website. The most common words not known to 18-19 year olds college students in this essay - inkling, ( Read more... )

I officially went back to work last Thursday. It is part-time, 2 classes, two days a week. I'm definitely over the commute - I want to find something closer. I have to get up at 5:30 to pump before I even start getting ready to leave - I don't need much to actually leave the house: get dressed, brush teeth and hair, put tea in thermos and go. I ( Read more... )

This morning I left the house to go to work orientation for the new semester. It was only a half day and I wasn't teaching or anything - but it was the first time leaving the house for work in a long time. I haven't ridden the subway since June. It was really nice. I didn't sleep to well, which happens when I know I have to wake with alarm clock ( Read more... )