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Today is the end of my laziness for the summer. Starting tomorrow, I will be working on getting ready to teach my classes and working on the MAYA program for next year. I've avoided doing to the work for as long as I could. Beyond those things, Dr. Leopold has sent me three conferences she would like to see me write a paper for, so I might start doing those.
As for next semester, they have me teaching two CS53 (Introductory C++) courses, working on the MAYA program and doing 9 credit hours of research. That'll put about 2/3rds of the incoming CS freshmen under my little finger! I was planning on changing the course significantly over the past semesters, so I'm feeling a little ansy because of the number of students I will influence. I'm debating whether or not I should change the course in the dramtic way I am planning.... There's a chance I could be mistaken in what I believe should be done with the course. I'm hoping I don't ruin a batch of CS majors :-/
I have not studied for the CS quals yet either. I'm not exactly sure how much I should study or even if I want to. Dr. Leopold told me that I should study, but I just told her "I've never had to study, so I don't think that would be my strong point." I'm not sure how she took that, but I think she took it as a bit of an arrogant ass.
I haven't talked to Robert since I ate at his house. I think I might go visit him while he's working on his research project. Robert works on designing a prostetic arm. Heh, the cool part is that he's only fifteen. he coming into UMR next semester, and I've volunteered to be his mentor. I'm not quite sure what that will entail, but I've approached it as a Big Brother/Big Sister mentorship type thing. I need to get in touch with him and do more. I feel like I've been woefully lacking in the "mentoring" department.
I've also gotten a new web host. They're giving me 150 GB/month of bandwidth and 50 GB of diskspace. The only way I can think of to use that much disk space and bandwidth is to move *everything* over there. So, I've setup Moodle to help me with my courses, a maillist, a calendar and I'll be moving my journal over there too. I'll leave all the particulars on this site when I actually get everything setup and going.
Anyway.. I'm spent.
--sea
As for next semester, they have me teaching two CS53 (Introductory C++) courses, working on the MAYA program and doing 9 credit hours of research. That'll put about 2/3rds of the incoming CS freshmen under my little finger! I was planning on changing the course significantly over the past semesters, so I'm feeling a little ansy because of the number of students I will influence. I'm debating whether or not I should change the course in the dramtic way I am planning.... There's a chance I could be mistaken in what I believe should be done with the course. I'm hoping I don't ruin a batch of CS majors :-/
I have not studied for the CS quals yet either. I'm not exactly sure how much I should study or even if I want to. Dr. Leopold told me that I should study, but I just told her "I've never had to study, so I don't think that would be my strong point." I'm not sure how she took that, but I think she took it as a bit of an arrogant ass.
I haven't talked to Robert since I ate at his house. I think I might go visit him while he's working on his research project. Robert works on designing a prostetic arm. Heh, the cool part is that he's only fifteen. he coming into UMR next semester, and I've volunteered to be his mentor. I'm not quite sure what that will entail, but I've approached it as a Big Brother/Big Sister mentorship type thing. I need to get in touch with him and do more. I feel like I've been woefully lacking in the "mentoring" department.
I've also gotten a new web host. They're giving me 150 GB/month of bandwidth and 50 GB of diskspace. The only way I can think of to use that much disk space and bandwidth is to move *everything* over there. So, I've setup Moodle to help me with my courses, a maillist, a calendar and I'll be moving my journal over there too. I'll leave all the particulars on this site when I actually get everything setup and going.
Anyway.. I'm spent.
--sea