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May. 7th, 2003 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kismet09oooh, my friends list has been happily active for the past 24 hours, and I'm always finding something new to read. Love that.
This part of advising is so painful for me. I started advising appointments on April 14, which means I am in my fourth week of constant 20 minute appointments, working with students to plan schedules for next semester. Most of my better students come in pretty early, so everyone I have left seems to be 2.0 or under, doesn't realize they need an appointment, hasn't been following what their major requirements are, or otherwise is not easy to advise or even interested in talking to me, really. I wish I could save some of my good, involved, interesting ones to plug in at the end of advising.
Once course registration is over, however, I have some more interesting things set up. I just talked to one of the profs in my department who does some research on active learning, and I'll probably be able to work with him and maybe even get published while I'm here. That means learning to use stats software (SPSS), which luckily my husband is really good at. Between that and working with the Health Professions Committee and writing people's composite letters for med school, I'll at least have things to do that exercise my brain.
Most of the things that I think of to write in here are in my head right before I go to bed. Maybe I should start writing myself prompts so that I actually remember what I was going to say in the morning.
This part of advising is so painful for me. I started advising appointments on April 14, which means I am in my fourth week of constant 20 minute appointments, working with students to plan schedules for next semester. Most of my better students come in pretty early, so everyone I have left seems to be 2.0 or under, doesn't realize they need an appointment, hasn't been following what their major requirements are, or otherwise is not easy to advise or even interested in talking to me, really. I wish I could save some of my good, involved, interesting ones to plug in at the end of advising.
Once course registration is over, however, I have some more interesting things set up. I just talked to one of the profs in my department who does some research on active learning, and I'll probably be able to work with him and maybe even get published while I'm here. That means learning to use stats software (SPSS), which luckily my husband is really good at. Between that and working with the Health Professions Committee and writing people's composite letters for med school, I'll at least have things to do that exercise my brain.
Most of the things that I think of to write in here are in my head right before I go to bed. Maybe I should start writing myself prompts so that I actually remember what I was going to say in the morning.
