Often when I listen to podcasts, I find myself unfamiliar with some of the terminology being used. Even more often, I find myself forgetting them after I鈥檝e looked them up in the dictionary.
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I鈥檓 probably not the only one with this problem, so how do I retain this information?
I鈥檝e been wanting to write a post about confidence for a while now, but I never really knew how to.
You鈥檙e sitting in your little wooden cubicle at the corner of an office. Your laptop is open in front of you; a picture of a black cat stares at you. Its lime-green eyes look into yours.
You maximize your Microsoft Word document. It鈥檚 blindingly white.
You lean back on your soft green office chair and sigh. You spin around, facing away from your cubicle. You look at the clock on the white wall to your left: 3:55PM.
You notice that you are bouncing your right leg.
In the last few weeks I鈥檝e been listening to the Mortified podcast, which features adults reading their adolescent diaries in front of a live audience, with no exaggeration, no embellishment, 鈥渏ust god-given awkwardness鈥. Every episode is guaranteed to produce cringing smiles.
I kept a diary of my own for six years, running from grade nine through my first year of university.
Long, long ago when I was young and dependent, my parents would nag about the state of my bedroom: it rarely met their standards of tidy. I would challenge their unrealistic ideals by questioning them. When this failed to help my cause I would shove everything under the bed.
Why do my clothes need to be put away? I鈥檓 going to wear them eventually; why must the bed be made? I鈥檒l be sleeping in it again, tonight; who am I hurting? Why does this 鈥渨ho鈥 care?
Drop-in hours at the libraries are best spent helping students with their assignments. What I like most about being a tutor is that I am constantly reminded that I have an entire work term of no homework. I鈥檓 living in the world of education鈥檚 liminal space: sitting on the sidelines not being affected!
Did you miss attending our Open House on September 16? You missed some great food, excellent information, and having some fun with words. We asked our visitors to tell us about their writing habits on our Writing Centre mural. Below are some samples of what was written.
This is our blog 鈥 welcome. We are literally buzzing in our seats anticipating all of the writing we will have to do to keep everything here looking fresh. Our co-ops are English professionals so they don鈥檛 mind.