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Undulations: A blog of a dancer and grad student

Undulations: A blog of a dancer and grad student

http://aleksiedancer.wordpress.com

The blog of a Middle Eastern/Indian dancer and physics graduate student

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  • Students are students

    Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 13:56 in Students, style, musings, physics, practice, schoolwork, middle eastern dance

    After reading Bhuz a little today and coming back from the holiday, I realized that learning is learning and students are students, regardless of what they are studying. Practice the big issue. We talk about it on Bhuz from time to time that the only...

  • Break=Good thing

    Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 12:14 in time, misc., thesis, adjunct professor

    The break provided me with some much needed R&R. I was semi-productive (cleaned, worked on my thesis), but I mostly relaxed. With moving and working simultaneously, it was good for me to take a break. I have more energy now than I did before. I c...

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 09:23 in personal history, misc.

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Here’s the highlights of what I’m thankful for from this past year: Friends who came through for me when my father died and in general when my life crashed down. Even the little gestures like a phone call or ...

  • Getting back into dance training

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 13:47 in goals, practice, Technique, middle eastern dance, instructional dvd

    I spent yesterday sick. Coincidentally, right as I began administering the exam for my students, my nose began dripping like crazy. I came home yesterday and slept like crazy. Dance class (I was going to try drop in ballet tonight) is not in my best ...

  • Test taking policies

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 09:47 in teaching, physics, exams

    Part of what makes teaching, especially being new at it, is trying to figure out what makes the most sense to do. At this school, exams are heavily weighted (20% for 3 tests, 20% for a final), so it’s important that they do well. Everyone here ...

  • Don’t update your system when working on an important project

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 10:54 in physics, thesis, physics life

    My advisor decided I needed to update a graph that I made used Matlab. A small theoretical curve graph, nothing fancy or labor intensive. I thought that it would take 5 minutes to make the small changes. I was wrong, it turned out. Matlab became scre...

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