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A former student e-mails
Last night, a student from the fall e-mailed me. Over the course of the last semester, she and I had a running correspondence about the teaching of the course as well as the substance of it as well. She’s an older student who, for a variety of reasons, was justifiably irritated at some of the […]
Starting a research project
Well, we didn’t start a research project, but it was the first meeting where we started to put short-term timelines together for who does what.
Magical moments
Every once in a while, students will say or do something that takes your breath away, and you trust that something you did as a teacher helped set that moment up. Today, I was lucky, and a student was luckier. A student group in each of my sections today organized a part of class around […]
Juggling obligations
Thirty minutes before my 10 a.m. class, I need to write down the scores of the class’s students on last week’s quiz, and I’m also working on two papers, one the chapter I worked on over the weekend and one fun, very short article manuscript I’m hoping to send off this week. I suppose it […]
Too busy forgetting
By Sherman Dorn on April 3, 2001
In the last two workdays alone, I have forgotten the following: To send notes from a meeting last Friday to the researchers involved; To do other misc. follow-up from the meeting I had intended to do yesterday; To thank a staff member in the college for sending me some documents; To look at a recommendation […]
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