Tag Archives: Teaching

Righting a Class

By alex | Published: 4/6/2007
Courses are not going as well as I would like this semester, and one course in particular. I haven’t written about it until now, since this blog is normally filled with happy thoughts. Besides, I figured I would wait until after the class was over and do a post-mortem. But then I realized that I […]
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Sometimes, homework is strange

By alex | Published: 11/8/2006
Good, but strange: The grad students this semester are keeping me busy with some really excellent blogging. It’s all aggregated here. Go read one of them and pass them a comment. Don’t worry, they aren’t that scary outside of Halloween… mostly.
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Undergrad advising verdict

By alex | Published: 11/2/2006
Undergraduate advising is a new part of my job. I was chatting with the other new hire, and among the schools we attended for undergrad and grad (me: Arizona State, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, University of Washington; him: Rutgers, USC), we never had faculty advisers. The advisor was someone you saw once or twice […]
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The unsyllabus

By alex | Published: 9/3/2006
Sorry I’ve been away from the blog a bit. This was my first week teaching at Quinnipiac University. I’ve felt really welcomed by this whole campus community, and am pretty excited about where the school is and where it is going. I’ve also been busy getting my Q-legs and bearings, so forgive any inattention to […]
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