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I was catching up on This American Life today, and heard about the Brooklyn Free School. It sounds great. Having homeschooled (or possibly unschooled?) myself through high school, I like the idea of it.

And then I’m confronted with taking attendance for my students, and it feels ( Read more... )

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I think those are the truest self-identifications ever applied to me. Everything else about me is relatively ancillary.

Yesterday, I got to take the first steps on actually being a teacher. Today, I got to resume being a student. I’m taking two classes this semester: Syntactic ( Read more... )

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I’ve never understood the Quaker use of First Day for Sunday. It makes sense only if Saturday is your sabbath-He rested on the seventh day, right?

However, that’s utterly irrelevant to what I intend to write. Today was the first day of my real graduate student career. I had a TA ( Read more... )

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So, classes, and thus TAing, begin Monday. I’ve been going to some How to TA meetings, and it’s been good. I’ve realized that I have some relevant experience, from explaining ling to my friends all the time, to wrangling classes of 4th graders, to GMing games. As to classes, I ( Read more... )

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I need to get back in the baking habit; it’s hard when weekends are the only time available for it, and it’s a two-day process.  But beyond that, I want to make pickles, ginger beer, and cheese.  My forays into each have been small.

I’m hoping to give some cooking lessons to a ( Read more... )