AKA, I wrote the first version of this before the final season of Game of Thrones*, but I guess it’s even more ~*~relevant~*~ now? If there’s one thing I’ve learned from teaching a course on professional presentations, it’s that sticking the landing is the hardest part. New speakers — heck,…
Winter is a tough time for me, so although I was expecting the trouble I had compiling this list, I was expecting the opposite kind: actually, there were too many things that made the past three months better for me! #blessed Seriously, though, I am really lucky that so many…
Gamers tend to have strong feelings about motion controls. Part of this is due to hardware limitations that make most motion controls less precise than button presses. Other times, it’s because it turns out that imagining yourself, say, throwing a Poké ball in the world of Pokémon, is a very…
Sitting in a seminar on the skill of feeling grateful, I realized that I was feeling resentful instead. And I wondered why.
It’s that time of year again! The time when we all get to see how over-optimistic I was last January! Here we go with my goals for 2018: 1. How to better understand spoken German. Starting in March, I began listening to a learning German podcast every weekday: Slow German.…
Here are 10 things I learned in 2018. They are helpful in that they helped me; results not guaranteed for anyone else. 1. How to balance bullet journals and flexibility. I like keeping records. I like maintaining habits, planning out routines that help me achieve goals I want. However, because…
Hooray! It’s the end of the year! I’ve survived on caffeine and physical activity (and, okay, some help from my family, my spouse, my friends, and other people I love). I’m grateful and humbled to have so many Big Life Things squared away… … but I’m still gonna have a…
When I was in Hebrew school, our teachers warned us about the dangers of assimilation. I’ve almost forgotten how often they did this, mainly because even at the time, I didn’t take it seriously. Some of them talked about it like the mainstream white Anglo-Saxon Protestant society Borg were going…
One of the most difficult parts of creating assignments is writing the guidelines. No matter how clear I think they are, students will always bring to my attention some aspect that they find confusing. Sometimes, the confusion has to do with minor inconsistencies–fair enough, I should have proofread more thoroughly…
As university lecturers, my colleagues and I are sometimes called upon to make judgments on what’s fair. Should we let student A re-write the midterm? Is it right to excuse student B from class for a sporting event? If we had perfect information about the world, every call would be…