Brief note: mainly posting this so as not to lose the link or have to hunt for it: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 was awarded for work in chirality, which is something that looks like it will be an important science bitlet in the story I’m writing now. The link above is a...
Read more →I’m about a week into Clarion; the first week of instruction, which was with Paul Park, has finished but it’s only Saturday so the first week isn’t over. Paul has this excellent ability to cut to the heart of the matter of things, or, perhaps, more importantly, to get us to look at the...
Read more →I am jetlagged, but not as badly as I could have been, and I am here. Got a room, got a futon mattress for the floor, got a desk and chair. HAven’t unpacked. Will think about it after breakfast. Got wireless internet, which is how I am connecting now. Got lots of bread. TONS...
Read more →I’m not planning on blogging regularly here while I’m at the Clarion workshop, though intermittent posts might make their way here on the backs of digital pigeons. But basically, for the next six weeks, I’ll be writing other things. And that also means if you email me, I may not reply for a while....
Read more →Meetings with the three students who participated in the mini-outburst in class the other night were mixed. Please Login or Register to read the rest of this content.
Read more →UPDATE: There’s an update to this post, but it’s in the private posts. If you read it, you’ll see why. You’d think by the time graduation rolls around, every student would have learned that doing homework leads to good grades, and not doing homework, especially homework graded in cumulative performances rather than leveled evaluation,...
Read more →I should have known, but of course I didn’t expect it. Please Login or Register to read the rest of this content.
Read more →YAY! I have finalized all the grades I can tonight — which means all but three grades. Everything else has been submitted, has been marked, and has been shown to the student or will be shown tomorrow. Small adjustments might be required, but nothing earthshaking, well, as long as my luck holds out. (My...
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