CV, Success, ca va?

What colleges have you attended? I had planned on going to college right after high school. I had selected a private Pennsylvania school (though I didn’t know about the private vs. public thing at the time) because they had a major in Cinematography, and at the time I wanted to be a film director. NeverContinue reading “CV, Success, ca va?”

No Place Like Home?

What do you love about where you live? Recently I was renewing my clearances—those hoops we need to jump through in Pennsylvania after the antics of Sandusky, Paterno, et al at Penn State made everyone who works with children a pedophile until proven innocent. One of the requirements on the forms is to list allContinue reading “No Place Like Home?”

Pirate or Ninja?

Are you a leader or a follower? My title is not an equivalent question to today’s prompt (“Are you a leader or a follower?”) but it’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the question. I would always ask students to introduce themselves on the first day of classes, and I wanted themContinue reading “Pirate or Ninja?”

Pass the Gin!

Describe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you. When I was an undergrad at Temple University, I would generally take the bus both ways to visit home. Oddly enough, someone else I met at my first college also transferred to the same program and at the same time as me.Continue reading “Pass the Gin!”