Aiant exactly myself
aiant exactly myself today, or for the past 2 days for that matter. TK, not really sure if its cos of that, cos there are other factors contributing too. For one, next week is going to be a packed 5 days. Well, after that, im home free. Just finished typing a long email, which helped to clear up some thoughts, in a slightly roundabout way.
REU is coming to an end at Chicago; 8 weeks gone just like that. RIght now am assisting in teaching Chicago Public high school teachers. THe bunch i have in the morning (lecturer is Paul Sally the third) are the best in their class, so can follow the material easily and we often start off by teaching various other stuff. Managed to work through induction with them, and various kinds of rate problems and such. A very fun bunch, easily excited when they finally grasp the hard material. The afternoon bunch (lecturer is Paul Sally, the one we love so much) is moderately placed, and besides they are learning the hardest course. So often we are reviewing material in the course, but still you cansee their excitement when they finally understand what the lecturer was saying.
The biggest difference between teaching kids and adults is that for adults, you can see their appreciation almost immediately. Almost every lesson, at least one teacher would be like 'Thank you for explaining blah blah.' or 'The way you illustrated this was wonderful.' Whereas for kids, you can only hope that someday they will be silently thankful for what you have done for them. In this sense, i guess I should be grateful towards all the teachers that have taught me at one point or another. Teaching is really a thankless career. I guess what keeps them going is teachers day when some old student of theirs goes back to visit them and say thanks. Which reminds me, I shall back and visit my teachers (assuming i can wake up in time)
The next week is going to be 1 mad rush. Being thelast week, they are going to cram in a few more lessons here and there into the already packed schedule. And they also want some student presentations into the night. Sianz, which means that i must pack food in order to go (almost) directly from lecture to lecture. But still, it has been a wonderful summer overall. Really glad that I decided to stay on in chicago for this programme, benefited much from it so far.
If this looks familiar, it is.
Cooking today has just been terrible. First i overboiled the japanese curry, so that the paste was much thicked then what it was supposed to be... Then for dinner (kenneth went out, i decided to stay in cos i wanted some time and space to myself) i sort of stupidly decided to just fry 2 drumsticks. Which din really cook on the inside, so i was forced to take it out, chop it up and cook again. Din end up cooked properly. Then i did egg, which for some weird reason ended up mostly on the base of the saucepan. BTW, weiyi's trick of heating up the saucepan and then pouring cold water to get rid of the dirt din really work. So TK, consider yourself warnedL kearn how to cook. Lets just hope that things wil get better over the next 2 weeks. Well, i know it shd be better once im on singapore soil, cos thats one way of avoiding the issue.
REU is coming to an end at Chicago; 8 weeks gone just like that. RIght now am assisting in teaching Chicago Public high school teachers. THe bunch i have in the morning (lecturer is Paul Sally the third) are the best in their class, so can follow the material easily and we often start off by teaching various other stuff. Managed to work through induction with them, and various kinds of rate problems and such. A very fun bunch, easily excited when they finally grasp the hard material. The afternoon bunch (lecturer is Paul Sally, the one we love so much) is moderately placed, and besides they are learning the hardest course. So often we are reviewing material in the course, but still you cansee their excitement when they finally understand what the lecturer was saying.
The biggest difference between teaching kids and adults is that for adults, you can see their appreciation almost immediately. Almost every lesson, at least one teacher would be like 'Thank you for explaining blah blah.' or 'The way you illustrated this was wonderful.' Whereas for kids, you can only hope that someday they will be silently thankful for what you have done for them. In this sense, i guess I should be grateful towards all the teachers that have taught me at one point or another. Teaching is really a thankless career. I guess what keeps them going is teachers day when some old student of theirs goes back to visit them and say thanks. Which reminds me, I shall back and visit my teachers (assuming i can wake up in time)
The next week is going to be 1 mad rush. Being thelast week, they are going to cram in a few more lessons here and there into the already packed schedule. And they also want some student presentations into the night. Sianz, which means that i must pack food in order to go (almost) directly from lecture to lecture. But still, it has been a wonderful summer overall. Really glad that I decided to stay on in chicago for this programme, benefited much from it so far.
If this looks familiar, it is.
Cooking today has just been terrible. First i overboiled the japanese curry, so that the paste was much thicked then what it was supposed to be... Then for dinner (kenneth went out, i decided to stay in cos i wanted some time and space to myself) i sort of stupidly decided to just fry 2 drumsticks. Which din really cook on the inside, so i was forced to take it out, chop it up and cook again. Din end up cooked properly. Then i did egg, which for some weird reason ended up mostly on the base of the saucepan. BTW, weiyi's trick of heating up the saucepan and then pouring cold water to get rid of the dirt din really work. So TK, consider yourself warnedL kearn how to cook. Lets just hope that things wil get better over the next 2 weeks. Well, i know it shd be better once im on singapore soil, cos thats one way of avoiding the issue.
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