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Tonight I started brewin my first mead. It was a joint venture with a friend who recently fell in love with the substance and a few other folks aiding. Hopefully it will turn out well.
In other news I had a student drop a class I'm TAing this quarter. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal since students add/drop quite a lot during the beginning of a term, but this student seemed to be genuinely interested in the class and had put in a good amount of effort.
The fact that this is bothering makes me remember why I came back to school. It's the same feeling I had when a new trainee quit and the opposite feeling of when I trained someone and they became competent digitizers at my old job. Teaching is very important to me (nearly sarcrilege when I'm supposedly hear to do research with teaching being a side-gig) and it's tough when people who could do well choose to go a different path. Hopefully it's the right one for him.
In other news I had a student drop a class I'm TAing this quarter. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal since students add/drop quite a lot during the beginning of a term, but this student seemed to be genuinely interested in the class and had put in a good amount of effort.
The fact that this is bothering makes me remember why I came back to school. It's the same feeling I had when a new trainee quit and the opposite feeling of when I trained someone and they became competent digitizers at my old job. Teaching is very important to me (nearly sarcrilege when I'm supposedly hear to do research with teaching being a side-gig) and it's tough when people who could do well choose to go a different path. Hopefully it's the right one for him.