Archives for 2003
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January
28: Overfilling My Plate
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29: Plate: Half Full or Half Empty
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30: Is This Item on the Menu Still Available or Not?
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31: Just a Few Bites Shy of Finishing the Meal
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February
03: Minimal Meal Preparations
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04: Did I Eat or Didn't I?
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05: Errors in the Menu
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06: Impromptu Meals
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07: Cancelling Reservations for the Chef's Nightly Surprise
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08: Last Night's Dinner Was A Success, And Next Week's Light Diet
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10: Future Dinner Party Coordination
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11: Demanding Guests
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13: Visiting Two Other Food Places
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14: Late Reservations
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15: Not Following Reservation Procedures
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March
03: Back from a Two Week Absence
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04: Extra Curricular Activities
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05: Plans for the Summer
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06: On the Weekend Home Stretch
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07: Thinking of Next Week Already
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08: Postmortem of a Cram Tutorial
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10: Still Not Up To Full Time Lecturing
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11: Catching Up On The Non-Classroom Part of the Job
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12: Half Way Point
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13: Hanging In There For the Weekend Stretch
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14: Going Away To Rediscover My Focus
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17: I Must Be Doing Something Right
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18: Ruining It For the Rest of Us
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19: Maybe They Like Being Spoonfed
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20: An Almost Full Day
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21: Back to the Old Weekend Routine
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22: Photo Finish
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24: A Promising Start for the Workweek
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25: A Not So Hectic Week So Far
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26: In the Lecturing Saddle Again, with the Panelist Hat On
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27: International Standard Goals in a Mostly-20th Century Country
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28: Loving Their Wondery of Discoverment
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29: Taking Care of Some Unfinished Stories
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31: Teaching Methods Evolve Yet Again
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April
01: No Fooling
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02: The Reverse of Learning From Others' Mistakes
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03: Nearing The Home Stretch of the Week and the Term
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04: Separating the Overachievers From the Sheep
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05: If A Student of Mine Ever Found This Blog, You Deserve the Reward Within
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08: Two Hours In After Two Days Out
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09: First Non-Academic Revelations
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10: It's All Grade Computations From Here
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11: Taking On the Stragglers
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12: On the Cusp of the Summer Break/Term
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14: Taking Care of the Majors
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15: Day of Judgment for Filing Your Income Tax Return
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16: Signing Off for the Next Six Days
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22: Mark This: First Veggie Reference
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23: Another First: Some Sort of A Rant
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24: Preparing and Waiting For My Cue While Someone Else Takes the Stage
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25: Last Minute Preparations
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26: Post-Mortem
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28: Wrapping Up About The Camp
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29: The Two-By-Four In My Eye
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30: An Educational Institution's Waste Curse
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May
01: Not Much Happening Now, Unlike Back Then
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02: The Show Must Go On Syndrome
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03: How Red Tape Thickens
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04: Out with the Old, In with the New
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05: Only Minimally astroprof This Time
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06: Seeing Something New
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07: Apparently Unimportant Viewpoints
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08: People and Things Where They Are Expected To Be
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09: Being Able to Observe from the Door as Someone Walks Out
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10: Beyond Chalkboard Learnin'
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12: Accomodating the New Crowd
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13: Letting the Students Make Their Own Mistakes and Not Follow Blindly
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14: When Irresistible Expectations Meets Immovable Ineptness
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15: Counting Down to D-Day
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16: Appointments Missed and Made
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17: The Middleman in the Information Chain
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19: Not Enough Time
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20: A Tribute
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21: Just Because We Asked Doesn't Mean We Will
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22: The End of Summer and the Start of the New Term
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23: Summer Ain't Over Yet
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26: Here We Go Again
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27: Technically Still the Second Day of School
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29: Yet Another Argument for Starting the School Year in September
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30: Like An Actor Saying the Same Old Lines Again
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31: Recycling and Saving Money on Another Level
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June
02: Current Students' Old Baggage
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03: Bottled Memoirs
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04: Snowballing Schedule Changes
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05: Loitering
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06: Minor Stumbling Blocks
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07: We're Here, We May Be Late, But Our Tuition Pays Your Salary So Teach Us
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09: Mostly Downhill From Here
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10: Taking the Students By the Hand and Spoon Feeding Them
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11: A Dress Rehearsal of Sorts Before the Premiere
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12: Remedies to Certain Bad Habits
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13: As Far At The Eye Can See
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14: A Really Good Visual Aid
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16: Taking It Easy On Monday Morning
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17: No Set Rules After All These Years
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18: The Time to Ask and the Time to Learn For One's Self
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19: Points for Pleading?
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20: Not Yet The End of the Week
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21: At Work on a Saturday Night: Not A Good Sign
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23: A Tale of Three Tests
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25: Giving the Students the Best Chances of Passing
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26: Preparations and Plans
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27: Pros In Favor of Visual Learning
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28: The Need to Dip into Pop Culture
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30: My View On Giving Exams
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July
01: The Academic Equivalent of Door-to-Door Salesmen
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02: Maybe I'll Pattern It After Hogwarts' Astronomy OWLs
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03: Gauging On My Own A Student's Capability
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04: Covering As Far As The Eye Can See
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05: Expecting Both Evidence and Excellence
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07: What Hollywood Can Teach Us
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08: Looking Beyond Graduation
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09: Merging All The Colleges' Minors
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10: Learning Something Useful and Using What You've Learned
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11: Robert Zemeckis is A Golden God
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12: Not All Flowers and Sunshine
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14: Preparing for the Next Three Weeks
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15: Backlog: A Testament to the Looming Workload
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16: Some Things Are Alright With Me
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17: I'm Still (Left) Holding the Basket
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18: Getting Hands On with Astronomy
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19: Astronomy is 90% Eye Work
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21: Slowing Putting The Burden of Work to the Students
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22: Their Grade, The Ball's In Their Court
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23: Where There Was Not Enough Electricity and Too Much of It
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24: Between Goals
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25: A Return to An Old Routine
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26: Choosing the More Dire Consequences to Their Actions
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29: Disruptions in the Schedule
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30: First Classes for the Week, On a Wednesday
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31: Finally Close Enough to See the Top of the Mountain
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August
01: Last Minute Preparations For the Field Trip
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02: There's Always Something New I Haven't Planned For Every Term
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04: All Return Safe and Sound: No Bumps or Lost Limbs
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05: Believing In Every Student's Potential
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06: My Week's Work Ends Today
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07: Slipping Between the Cracks of Policy
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08: My New Toys Come In
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September
08: Waiting for the Smoke to Drop
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09: A Missing Person and Missing a Recreational Trip
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10: SomeTHIng Hits the Fan
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11: Letting Others Speak For Now
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12: My Take, and My Fault
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13: Still Room for Improvement After All These Years
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23: Just Enough to Justify Not Doing More - Or So He Thinks
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24: Having An Eye On Something Other Than The Big Picture
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25: Present Students Starting to Think Like Future Teachers
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October
01: Having a Skewed Perspective of What's Difficult and What the Panel Wants
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03: Step 2 in Field Trip Logistics
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06: As Far From a Uniform Discussion As I Could Get
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07: He Wants the Poster to be Completely Horizontal, When What the Audience Doesn't Like is the Picture
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08: Not Enough Time To Do Everything
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09: Working Out of the Box
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10: What I Intend to Do Instead of What Happened
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11: Lifting My Foot A Little
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13: Not Giving In to the Selfish Impulse of Shirking Work
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14: Decide In Advance Where We Set Up Camp or On the Spot?
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15: Hammering the Information Into Their Heads
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16: Scrutinizing A Running Engine, Which Ain't Broke, But May Be Inefficient
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17: First Impressions on the First Long Test
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18: Looking to the Iron Age
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20: Maybe It's Inevitable to Become What I Wanted to Avoid
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21: Uncool
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22: Explaining Entertainment
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23: Catching the Students' Interests and Attention
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27: Throwing Off the Reputation of Being Objective
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28: Brevity is the Soul of Wit
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29: Covering All Contingencies
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30: No Socializing
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31: Some Holiday
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November
03: When One's Living Depends on the Voice
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04: CrawlingTowards the Light, Which is Now Visible
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05: The Difference Between Written Group Work and Individual Oral Answers
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06: "So Far Off to A Bad Start"
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07: Hope from the More Skilled
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10: No Regular Duties
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11: Running Out of Time
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12: Learn and Let Learn
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13: Second Time-Centered Post This Week
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14: Playing Catch Up
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15: Planning Out the Next Two Weeks
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17: The Academic Equivalent of Barnacles
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18: We've Covered the Whole Sky
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19: Giving the Students Something to Look Forward to In Class
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20: Relying On The Surroundings
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21: The Influence of Pop Culture
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22: Motivating the Students to Excel
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24: What A Way to Start the Week
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25: Roller Coasters, Teetertotters and Other Emotional Transportation Analogies
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27: Age or the Belief of Rushing Starting to Affect Work?
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28: Playing Musical and Hemispherical Rooms
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29: I Know What I Know Because I've Experienced It And Not Just Read It
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30: Making Someone See and Admit Their Shortcomings
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December
01: The Things I Do For Someone I'd Like to Meet
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02: It's Nice to Hear that I'm Appreciated, Even Relatively
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03: Asking the Right Questions To Get the Intended Responses
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04: Does This Blog Make Me Look Buffed? CRE-W MEMBERS: CLICK HERE FIRST!
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05: The Balance Between What the Teacher Wants to Impart and What the Students Can Comfortably Listen To
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06: The Era of Writing Everything in Paper or Electronic Planners
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09: Maybe My Irritation During Our Meetings Showed Which Is Why They've Become Infrequent
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10: Squeezing Time
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11: Dealing With People Who Desperately Try to Cover All the Bases
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12: People Asking For An Arm and A Leg when They Deserve Not a Fingernail
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13: Paid to Do His Thinking For Him?
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15: Looking Back on Two Days When I was Looking Down at Students Taking an Exam
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16: The Different Ways People Deal with Situations Outside the Rules
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17: A Day That Will Live In Irony
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18: Christmas Spirit Loses to Avoiding Getting Put on Someone Else's Naughty List
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19: The Cowardly Way of Confrontation
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20: Good Programmers Know How to Make It Easy For the Users
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22: Regressing to Former Non-Intuitive Behavior
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23: Winding Down for the Year and the Term
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