It’s past 3:30 Central Time on Thursday, so you know what that means! It’s the weekend for Angela!!! That’s right, I have no recurring commitments on Fridays so I get a 3 day weekend every weekend! No classes, no work (at least not scheduled work…), just “fun.” What is a typical weekend for this math […]
I know most of my posts so far have been either about the move to Texas or conjecture about what grad school would be like. Now I’ve got some real experience! So, of course I’m going to share it with “y’all.” Oh, but before I do, I’d like to point out that most stereotypes people […]
So, tomorrow graduate school officially starts. I hit the ground running on the first day too: I teach two classes (8AM and 9AM), have office hours at 10AM, and have one class of my own (at 2PM). Then I have Friday off. (Actually I have every Friday off. Lucky me!) My syllabus is written and […]
Got my teaching assignment! I’ll have two sections of pre-calculus recitations. At 8AM & 9AM on Tuesdays & Thursdays. And I know I said in the last entry that I’ll be just a TA, but I’m pretty sure that I’ll have to do lectures for this class. Actually, my responsibilities are not clear at all […]
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