To supplement my summer income, I’m also helping out with placement tests at the community college where I worked during the academic year. The job was entails administering placement tests, as well as talking to the new students about college. I didn’t expect this job to be so interesting. Administering the tests, not so much, [...]

I’m proud of my students; most of them actually appear to have taken to heart my advice on studying. Most students passed their finals with Bs or As. Not bad at all, considering some of them were not A or B students in this class. It was a pleasant surprise to say the least and [...]

You know it’s the end of the year when the tutoring center has people show up and suddenly, you get to tutor everything. I tutored for about 2 hours today. I did physics, calc, and English. Since final grades are due Friday, I have a lot of work ahead of me. My math students are [...]

We’re in our last week of classes; next week is finals. It’s hard to believe that we’re almost finished. In some ways, this is scary, since I kind of have a summer job. I haven’t accepted it, but without any prospects, it looks like I will be. The pay isn’t great, but some income is [...]

My current job has no need for additional adjuncts during the summer, so I’m off to find another job. While I’m not surprised (I’m the lowest ranked person in the office, I believe), I am disappointed. I like teaching, and I hate searching for employment. The economy is still rough, which means that jobs are [...]

I feel very lucky to have a job. I feel even luckier to have job I enjoy. Granted, I don’t enjoy every day. Teaching is difficult, because- well, I’m a rookie, and I think students are always students. We have cheating issues, deal with motivating the students to come class and do work, etc. Every [...]

Yesterday we sat around talking about how awesome a snow day would be. We didn’t think it would happen, but sure enough, Boston Public canceled classes. Since we follow whatever Boston Public does, we had off too. The cancellation is hilarious, because the weather wasn’t nice but we weren’t pounded with snow the way a [...]

Time is kicking my butt. One hidden perk of having one full-time job is that you typically can stay put. Having three jobs means I live out of my bookbag and my T pass gets plenty of use. My students are doing okay. Some are a little intimidated by physics. I think it’s good that [...]

I don’t think I mentioned that I have 3 jobs. I mentioned teaching as an adjunct and working as a middle school after school teacher to make math fun and exciting. My third job is writing problems for an integral calculus textbook. I feel like I live out of my bookbag, because I’m transporting stuff [...]

After a long, peaceful break, I begin school on Tuesday. Lots to prepare for that still. The syllabus was changed last minute (the department of the students’ major wanted electricity and magnetism introduced in the beginning of the semester; EM is usually introduced after a Newtonian mechanics section), so quite a bit of the planning [...]