Frequently I would say that there are no problems, only opportunities. Opportunities to learn, opportunities to rise, opportunities to do better. If you are somebody who needs to assign a purpose to everything that happens, I respectfully submit that learning is the purpose of the Coronavirus.
Category: Education
Science Weekly 3/22/20
Yes, we can talk about volume occupied by air in Styrofoam, or for more advanced kids even density as the same mass occupies a smaller volume and therefore is more dense, but it’s also just fun to see the Styrofoam dissolve. Asking the simple question of how so much Styrofoam can fit into such a small volume is the first step of the scientific method, getting students to ask why and conjecture as to possible reasons, and a great introduction to Science.
Students 3/12/20
imagine how I feel when students do show appreciation.
Spring Break 3/9/20
spring break is so important for the mental well-being of students. So, my personal wish is that they all have a happy, fun, exciting break and all return to us healthy, refreshed and ready to round out the year.
ABD 2/27/20
I came to realize that “ABD” basically stood for “incomplete”. In hiring committees, if they included an anticipated date of defense, that was fine, but otherwise I wouldn’t even consider anybody who listed “ABD” without an anticipation of defending.
Tenure 2/26/20
Tenure is as close to the proverbial “all of your eggs in one basket” scenario as I’ve ever seen.
Test Time 2/23/20
I ran into a student of mine a couple of years after he had taken my class in the grocery store. "You had no idea," he said, "but I was completely wasted when I took your final exam." I replied, "you have no idea, but I know you were."
