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Clear filtersThe GREs Are: A) Stupid and Dumb, B) Dumb and Stupid, or C) All of the Above
October 5, 2011
If you have not woken up at 6:00 a.m. to take a standardized test in an industrial suburb of Cleveland before, I do not recommend doing so. It's like waking up at 6:00 a.m. to take a standardized test in an industrial suburb of Cleveland.
The pains of an intern.
August 4, 2011
A rather existential blog post about internships. Have I scared you away from reading this yet?
Who Moved My Compass?
July 17, 2011
WARNING: contains metaphorical language you may not yet be prepared to handle.
So we beat on, boats against the current
June 1, 2011
That, I suppose, is as fitting a metaphor as any for the end of my college time. We, in some small way, touch a place, it touches us, and then we move on.
And After Graduation...
March 31, 2011
Grad school was an obvious possibility, as was finding a job and working for a year, getting more lab experience. But I wasn't sure if I wanted to remain so heavily married to the sciences, at least in the immediate future.
Snow busy-ness
February 26, 2011
Things got a little hairier at this point, if I remember right, and I found new uses for my simple tools. The flat head screwdriver could be easily used as a pry bar, I found, pulling up pieces of the tape player whose screws wouldn't yield to my five year-old hands.
Volunteers Wanted...to Reflect
February 14, 2011
So here's the deal. I'm looking for VOLUNTEERS. Students who would like to begin working on their own ePorfolios now. I provide you with access to an ePortfolio system, you use it (more instructions provided) and, every now and again, we get together to talk to other ePortfolio users about how it's going and what you're getting out of it (or not!).
Three unrelated vignette blog posts
November 28, 2010
All you need to know is that it's legit real-world stuff, and she hasn't even graduated yet. Some people just really have their lives together.
Yet Another Open Letter
October 9, 2010
Another open letter to my family: being a big kid is eye-opening and good. Much love-profession enclosed.
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