Nostalgic Classwork

Today I decided to learn a piano piece. It’ll probably take a very long time to learn it completely, and by then I’ll be in Europe. And who wants to spend their time indoors playing piano when they’re already in Europe, eh? Maybe I do! In the evenings, when staying inside is as good as [...]

Hard Work

All my hard work paid off. Hard work always does! Now all I can think about is a blissful summer in the bay area. (Full of hard work, of course!)
I have purpose to my life now. It’s a great feeling. My confidence level and ego just sky-rocketed.

Words of Comfort

Me: It’s really stressful right now.
Advisor: Unfortunately, you can’t avoid that. That’s life.
He didn’t offer a way to ease the stress or change to more cheerful topics. He didn’t try to see the situation in an alternatively optimistic way. He told it how it was.
Those were the exact words of [...]

Lessons from Lessons

At first when I started teaching, I was always nervous before class. Now it’s much less so, but there’s something that I feel isn’t there anymore.
When I first started teaching, it was something very new, and I had just came from Berkeley so I was pretty optimistic and happy-go-getting. As the quarters passed by, I [...]

Nervous…check

I get so nervous before I teach. When I actually have to teach, I end up not going over all the things I wanted to and I speak too fast. I need to learn to calm down!!!
3 months of experience has taught me……what?
The reason why I’m there is to help the students understand some concepts. [...]

Burning Desire

When my advisor looks at the work I’ve done, and after he explains to me his thought process, I usually have burning questions to ask him. I really want to ask them…and I end up doing so. Except I haven’t really thought them through and more or less I could answer them myself if I [...]