My adviser, Michael Wesch, just published an insightful article about the state of education. I won’t go into terrible detail about it here. I’ll let you all read it for yourselves – it’s definitely worth it. He makes a poignant critique about the lack of vision and the overwhelming myopia that characterizes education today. Of [...]

In contrast with my previous post, today has actually been a refreshing day regarding pedagogy. I’ve been asked to help a sociology professor here on campus set up a blog and a netvibes universe for the students in her class. I just spent an hour or so in her office going over the various aspects [...]

Ok, so I have to vent about this. Test grades were posted today for my cognitive psychology class. I didn’t do as well as expected. In fact, in terms of my own standards I did poorly. Considering I made a point to study for this test almost everyday (no there is no hyperbole there) for [...]