Chocolate Cherry Charlottes (Page 819)
RECIPE #1203
- Date: Sunday, August 15, 2010 -- 8pm
- Location: East Lansing, MI
- Kitchen: Our House
- Dining Companion: Matty
- Recipe Rating: B
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The semester starts tomorrow and I can't say I feel entirely ready. When I was growing up the first day of school always made me nervous. It turns out that remains true. My first few semesters teaching I got really stressed out right as the term started. I assumed then that in time I would be so used to it that my blood pressure would hardly rise with each new term beginning. This is my ninth semester teaching and I can definitely say that I haven't yet reached that point! As of yet I haven't had a semester exactly like a previous one -- each semester has brought some firsts. There was the first semester I taught at Stanford (which was also my first semester teaching, and my first and only semester teaching computer programming!). Then the first semester I taught at MIT. There was my first semester teaching at Indiana, which was also my first semester lecturing for my own courses. Then I had my first semester teaching a course I never took, followed by my first semester teaching two different courses. Then came the first semester I taught a graduate course. Last fall was the first semester I had more than 300 students. And this semester is my first semester at Michigan State! I am teaching calculus this term, which I have taught several times before -- this will be my eighth set of calculus students. But it being my first semester in a new place there is definitely some added anxiety. In a way it is nice that no two semesters have been the same. It is more work (and stress!) for things to keep changing, but I think the varied experiences have served me well and I am a better teacher because of them. Plus, having had 330 students the last term I taught certainly makes my class of 47 students this term seem nice and small!
Wish me luck tomorrow. Hopefully day one goes smoothly!
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