1) When I applied to CTY, my situation was that I'd recently learned that I was being kicked out of grad school, and I was panicked because my world had been turned upside down and I had no clue what I was going to do (or how I would even feed myself, though I've always known I could go back "home" to my parents if I had to). T$ came across the CTY job application online, and suggested I apply as a stop-gap, and I did so. When applying I had no thoughts further than surviving another few months.
Between accepting the CTY position and starting at CTY, I did interview for quite a few permanent jobs, mostly teaching, some year-round. I accepted the offer for my current job over the cellphone while standing in the parking lot at LAN.
At the end of the first year (2004) of teaching at CTY, I knew I wanted to come back, but also knew I probably couldn't take a whole year. After the second year (2005) I decided to try a different summer camp for the next one, and the subsequent two years I've kept myself busy with summer classes. I've always felt returning again was a possibility, but I didn't want to oust my former TA who now teaches the course, so this recent idea to apply as dean as grabbed me.
2) I do not believe any of the former CTY students I've friended here were students of *mine*. I think most of them weren't even students at CTY while I was teaching there. The former CTY students I've friended here were mostly b/c they were friended by people I knew face-to-face as other CTY instructional staff, and I found their blogs interesting in their own right.
There are some former students of mine in my current job that I am still friendly with in real life, though primarily as a mentor-student relationship, not a friendship. If I found those people on LJ I might friend them, but (due to my paranoia) I see no reason to seek them out.
I am actually uncertain how I feel about actually becoming friends with former students. One particular concern I have is that I more readily make friendships with guys (but more lasting ones with girls), and because of this I worry about there being attraction involved - I do not want to have to deal with that sort of awkwardness. I've already had a current student ask me out on a date, I'd rather not face that with any former students. Maybe it's a bit paranoid of me, and maybe it ends up isolating me a bit from people in real life, but I'm not certain. It certainly bears more thinking on my part.
Between accepting the CTY position and starting at CTY, I did interview for quite a few permanent jobs, mostly teaching, some year-round. I accepted the offer for my current job over the cellphone while standing in the parking lot at LAN.
At the end of the first year (2004) of teaching at CTY, I knew I wanted to come back, but also knew I probably couldn't take a whole year. After the second year (2005) I decided to try a different summer camp for the next one, and the subsequent two years I've kept myself busy with summer classes. I've always felt returning again was a possibility, but I didn't want to oust my former TA who now teaches the course, so this recent idea to apply as dean as grabbed me.
2) I do not believe any of the former CTY students I've friended here were students of *mine*. I think most of them weren't even students at CTY while I was teaching there. The former CTY students I've friended here were mostly b/c they were friended by people I knew face-to-face as other CTY instructional staff, and I found their blogs interesting in their own right.
There are some former students of mine in my current job that I am still friendly with in real life, though primarily as a mentor-student relationship, not a friendship. If I found those people on LJ I might friend them, but (due to my paranoia) I see no reason to seek them out.
I am actually uncertain how I feel about actually becoming friends with former students. One particular concern I have is that I more readily make friendships with guys (but more lasting ones with girls), and because of this I worry about there being attraction involved - I do not want to have to deal with that sort of awkwardness. I've already had a current student ask me out on a date, I'd rather not face that with any former students. Maybe it's a bit paranoid of me, and maybe it ends up isolating me a bit from people in real life, but I'm not certain. It certainly bears more thinking on my part.
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