The past month I’ve talking to many people about grad/professional school and goals and the like. Everyone I’ve talked is at various stages of degrees, from undergrads to almost finished PhDs. One conversation in particular inspired this post; someone was interested in completing a program because of the end result: a doctorate. I’m not convinced [...]

Middle Eastern dance (well, dance period) fell into my life by chance; I wasn’t even looking for an activity or exercise, I just went into a store. However, I’ve been thinking about how much chance has influenced me in others ways, with regards to Middle Eastern dance. My teachers on a whole have been more [...]

Background info on me: I was adopted when I was 10 weeks old from Korea to a white family. I consider myself- well, myself first and foremost. Being stereotypically Korean simply doesn’t make sense to me; culture isn’t something in your DNA but something you grow up around, which is why calling something “American culture” [...]

Awhile ago, I had addressed generally how to argue a grade. After last semester and looking at the search hits, I’ve decided to specifically address arguing the final grade. Again, I’ve been on both sides of the table. I did well last semester, 2 A’s, an A-, and a B+. Part of me thought about [...]

A friend and I were chatting the other day about her unhappiness with her progress in a pole dancing class. She thought about quitting, because she wasn’t great at it. We talked for a bit, and I convinced her to keep trying since she is interested in it. I can relate to that from my [...]

Brief background info on me: I grew up in an urban school district in PA. I never feared for my life while at school, but things there were not good. The state, while I was a student, threatened to take over the district, due to low test scores. People were and still are poor, family [...]

I’ve started taking Bharatanatyam again, a classical Indian dance. I’ve had on and off experience with Bharatanatyam starting in 2005. I switched to Odissi after a summer of Bhartanatyam. I studied Odissi for 2 years. Once I went to Chicago, I couldn’t find an Odissi teacher, which was remarkable to me; Chicago has a huge [...]

In addition to my adjunct work, I’m going to have a small part-time job (about 5 hours/week) where I engage middle schoolers in math after school. I think it should be fun. Challenging but fun. I worked as a middle school camp counselor for a week in my junior and senior years of high school. [...]

2009 was a rough year for me, no doubt. The entire last decade (feels funny saying that, no?) was a rollercoaster of events, both good and bad. I feel like 2009 did end semi-decently (job, settling back into Boston), signs that things may pick up for 2010. All I know for this year coming up [...]

I’ve decided over my school break that I’m going to make a website. All I have to do is figure out a URL. Why am I going to create a website? Because I want to. Nothing special. I used to make websites back when people first could (I taught myself how to type by making [...]