For a while now, I’ve been trying to figure out what the difference is between people that have cancer and people that do not. There is the obvious: chemotherapy, hospital stays, forced recognition of mortality. But really, how different does that make us from everyone else. Chemotherapy is medicine albeit a poisonous, hair stealing, monster […]
Month: March 2013
Tenuous Season
Technology’s Usefulness
It isn’t uncommon for me to see the students pull out their iPhone in class, not necessarily to text a friend, but to use the calculator option provided. The question arises, do we want this technology usage encouraged in the classrooms? The overwhelming answer seems to be yes. A recent article, Digitally Aided Education, Using the Student’s Own […]
Little Wins
March 17, 2013. To many of you readers out there, March 17 was St. Patrick’s Day. A day for all to be Irish and indulge in a pint of Guinness and a shot of Jameson. If you are a 21 year old frat boy, St. Patrick’s Day is a day like the rest. A day […]
Spring Break, AWWW YEAH
Ahh, the break every student lives for and every parent dreads. The break that movies are made of. People, the countdown has reached zero. Spring Break…has arrived! Oh yeah. THIS. THIS is what I’m talking about. After two months of being on autopilot, churning out papers, and digging down deep to find some semblance of […]
ibeam
I haven’t been going out too much lately but the last two times I did go out it was to listen to some great jazz at this performance space in Gowanus, Brooklyn called Ibeam. Every time I go there, I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how good the music was. The place is in a very […]
Sometimes, Life Be Crazy
SIGH. Mhmm. I understand. Sometimes, life just kicks you where it hurts. When you’re already down. For no reason at all. Whether it’s ten pages of utter torture in the form of intro, graphs, and references, or a test that you’ve bombed spectacularly regardless of the fact that you studied so hard you can practically […]
Rantings and Ravings of a Cancery Person at 4:00 A.M
It is 4:00 am and I am reading cancer blogs because hey, it is what I do at 4:00 am. I was reading blogs and articles trying to get a sense on what my blog was lacking, where it should go, what I should address, and to whom it should be addressed but I just […]
Brain Fart
Recipe of the Week: Barbequed Steak and Potatoes Have you ever noticed that when you get upset or stressed, everything just seems to go wrong? It’s a vicious cycle really. When you’re stressed, you’re predisposed to think negatively about everything that happens, so in theory, you get stressed out even more than you already were in […]
Making Math Motivating
The key to a successful lesson is Motivation. The key to my improvement? Better motivation. Last week I commented on how Word Problems can be tricky, but I must highlight the fact that they can also be excellent motivators… but how do you motivate if there is no word problem to match the material? […]
