Last night, I received a rather peculiar email from the professor of the physics class I was taking. He wanted to know what my background was, because after checking my transcript (which seems like a weird move to me albeit I’m guessing legal), he found that there was no physics classes there. I explained things [...]

With the sun setting already at 7 PM and cooler temperatures, summer has already begun to end. I’ve been looking at my calendar, trying to write things in, and I realized in less than 3 weeks, I’ll be back in school. Although I enjoy school and look forward to moving forward with my degree, I [...]

My main goal this summer that is not academic is to re-start Bharatanatyam. I’ve been hesitant to announce that I have been on hiatus for several months. My former class, for many reasons, was not working out, and I’ve decided to move on to a different school and class. It was a difficult decision, because [...]

Because I’m almost 100% sure it is covered, I am taking one summer class through the education school. It’s partially because the topic is interesting (international education), partially because I want to experience taking an online course and right now, it makes the most sense to do an online course; I have a conference that [...]

My schedule for next semester is tricky. It’s hard for me to believe it, but I cannot find a fourth class. Right now, I plan on taking: A particle physics class A class on higher education A required course on dissertation proposal writing I wanted to take a statistics course, but there isn’t a suitable [...]

Today I met with my surrogate advisor (a person who works in the engineering department with lots of physics ties) again to discuss dissertation stuff. Basically, coming up with a topic that I can complete within four years that is strong research. My actual advisor is very intelligent and helpful, but what I want to [...]

On Tuesday, I head back to school. I’ve been fairly productive over the break, catching up on rest, cleaning, organizing, etc. I have one more sewing project to complete (a costume cover up), as well as some other crafting projects (face moisturizer and body butter). As I’ve told most people, my break hasn’t been super [...]

Even with the holiday Monday, I feel ever so slightly behind on life. Photos and adjustments to my costume haven’t happened yet, because school, MassRaqs, and Bharatanatyam are taking up time. Yesterday, I had 6 hours back to back of lecture, which was a bit hard to sit through. Not impossible, but I was definitely [...]

I realized yesterday that we have roughly a month until the performance for Meiver’s recital. While I have enjoyed the training and think it was good to be taken out of my comfort zone, learning 4 choreographies for her and 2 for Bharatanatyam has left little time for my own personal things. I’ll still need [...]

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 [...]