reading Borrowed Book From my little sample, I conclude that there are many avid readers around. I am a bit short of half way through Pirsig and Phaedrus's adventure in the mid-west, when it is time to return the book. ;_; Renewal is not possible when another reader
teaching Where did my female students go? It is embarrassing to report that I have lost all my female students after two lectures. ;_; What did I do wrong? (Was the fault entirely mine?) This is a delicate topic, extremely easy to offend people. I have a conjecture that my female students
teaching Teaching We sat down to prepare as we are going to teach some theory. That was overwhelming. We understand the theory pretty well, because we use it on a daily basis. However to teach it, we needed to pick a way to present it. That
teaching No Job A group of us lamented the lack of academic positions in the US, while another group of us lamented having to teach humongous 200-student classes. Just try engaging students that are half a mile away in the lecture hall. We all agreed that the
mathematics Slides do not work. Using slides to present maths is horrible in our opinion. Somehow we cannot form a mental picture of what the speaker is talking about. We do not know a precise reason. There are some annoying points of slides. Sometimes the speaker goes on to