Category Archives: classes

Last Day of Class

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Mica

Can you find me among my students? I will miss them next semester. One of my students wrote me a very sweet e-mail: “Dear Mica, Thank you for you praise and delicious cookies! I really enjoy the time with you … Continue reading →

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Sometimes, you burn the cookies.

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Mica

Today, I taught my last class of the semester. (Don’t worry, parents, I’ve been rehired for the spring!) Because I am the nicest instructor ever To thank my students for their hard work, I made them two kinds of cookies. … Continue reading →

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Snowed in.

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Mica

This semester, I have been taking the required Pedagogy/ESL Practicum course. Last night, we had the farewell party for the Special English Class that we have been teaching over the course of the semester. The teachers and the students were … Continue reading →

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Rant: Who likes group work??

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Mica

Note: Somewhere in here, I probably sound like class-ist or, at the very least, a giant snob. My new academic program is big on groupwork. This semester, I have had a ridiculous number of collaborative projects, exams, and assignments. I.hate.group.work. … Continue reading →

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Dumpy Grad Student

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Mica

The weather is cold. I wore a warm hat while running this morning. And now I’m wearing a hat inside. …And I just finished grading for the evening. My eyes are going to fall out of my head. What is … Continue reading →

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Polyglot.

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Mica

I have a Korean test (“wrap-up quiz”) tomorrow. It’s hard to believe that we’ve already covered five of the seven chapters for the semester. It is also hard to believe that I am still very un-functional in Korean at this … Continue reading →

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New career: Cartographer

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Mica

I have a rather-involved project due for tomorrow, involving materials design for a non-native speaker having difficulty with the /θ/. I won’t get into the nitty-gritty details, but I made a map activity. The take-away message? I should quit grad … Continue reading →

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Dear week-from-hell…

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Mica

I’ll admit that I am more prone to stress and stress-related theatrics than the average person (grad student?), but these last two weeks were pretty unpleasant for me. However, I think I have survived. My skin looks like poo, and … Continue reading →

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Count to 10.

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Mica

1-10 in Korean <–보세요! That’s an awkward video of me counting from 1-10 in Korean, using both Sino-Korean and Native Korean numbers. When I was little, my parents bought me a book called Count Your Way Through Korea, which had … Continue reading →

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Happiness Graph.

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Mica

This is how my day progressed: Around 7pm, I hit rock bottom. After a day of back-to-back class, working, teaching, and an extremely frustrating course, I bicycled home with the weight of my many assignments and obligations on my shoulders. … Continue reading →

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