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College Professors- Are They Worth More Money?

Teachers are not known for making a lot of money. While some states and districts are giving pay raises and incentives for teachers to remain in their areas, the respect is still not there. Although teaching is a profession and teachers are professionals, they usually are not paid and held in the high regards of other professionals such as doctors and lawyers. I think in society’s eyes, college professors are the most prominent of teachers. This is likely due to the difficulty of the academic materials that they usually teach. In addition, many college professors hold a doctorate degree. This … Continue reading →

Public Ratings for Professors

As future college students prepare to find the school of their choice, undoubtedly they will be encouraged to surf the web for information, visit colleges, and investigate scholarships. Now they can take a look at the actual professors, and what students think of them. Ratemyprofessors.com is an interesting and entertaining site. Registration is free, and registered members can surf through schools they are considering, and look at student commentary on faculty members in their areas of interest. Rebuttal of comments is also invited. Student feedback is not scientific data, nor is it wholly reliable. Still, if a student is planning … Continue reading →

Making a Story Together

For those of you that are new to my blog I am an Elementary Education major at UVU. Last week one of my professors assigned a huge project. She asked us to write and illustrate an entire children’s book. While it is a fun idea, the task seemed more than a little daunting to me. When we are finished with the project the books will be sent off to a company in Kansas that will bind them into hardback books for us to keep in our homes. I was excited about it, but being the extreme perfectionist that I am … Continue reading →

College Part 2

Last time I hit you with some general advice about going to college. Mostly though I talked about my experience of being on both sides of the divide (student/teacher) and empathizing with the difficulties of seemingly abandoning your former life (family, friends, jobs, familiar environments, etc.) to attend college somewhere else with people you don’t know and professors you’ve never heard of in fields you are either too (or completely “un-“) certain about. It’s a challenging shift for anyone. So I have some advice based on my own time as a student as well as my time as a grad … Continue reading →

The Dusty Boxes

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I’m moving. Me and my family are uprooting ourselves from where we’ve been for a long while and heading to what we hope will be greener pastures and even greater successes. We’ve spent a great deal of time working through two graduate degrees. There is only one thing left for me to do: write a dissertation. That’s no small task, but it is one that we can do away from professors and nearer to family. We’re doing exactly that. As we started going through the boxes we had hiding in closets, the garage, and other not often touched places, I … Continue reading →

The Wrong Order

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Order is an important thing. Whether you’re talking about how to put a hamburger together or how to put on your pants, the ordering of how things are done is important. If I zip up and button the pants before I put my legs in, I’m going to have trouble. While this seems obvious to must of us concerning our daily routines, it is not obvious to children. Our son has recently demonstrated his sometimes confused sense of order to tasks that we take for granted. Years of simply doing things have habitualized certain behaviors and tasks into things we … Continue reading →

Being Frugal Is Genetically Influenced

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Do you come from a long line of “cheapskates”? Some people have a tendency be frugal, while other people tend to enjoy spending a lot of money. Why is this? Is frugality something that a person learns from their relatives, or is there a genetic influence? Studies show that it is due to both, with an emphasis on genetics. Many of my relatives are quite frugal. Not only is outgrown clothing handed down from one sibling to another, it was also handed down from older cousins to younger cousins. My grandmother loved going to garage sales and yard sales and … Continue reading →

Scheduling

Since getting through one of the gates towards defending my dissertation proposal I came up against one of the most grueling and inhumane tasks any student can possibly encounter in their time at an academic institution: scheduling. Sure, sure, you say, there are all sorts of programs to take care of those concerns for you. How hard can it really be? People aren’t THAT busy, are they? I’m sorry to say that scheduling really is a huge problem. People ARE that busy. Not everyone uses magical technology programs to schedule their lives (some people do use paper). While technology can … Continue reading →

Before You Submit That Proposal……

If you do freelance writing work, submitting proposals on projects may be a large part of how you get work. By working as a freelance writer, I have learned that there are two very important things to consider when submitting proposals. First, know what you are bidding on. This serves two very important purposes. The first is that you must know enough about what the job entails in order to be able to make an honest assessment of whether you can do the work and for what price. If the project description is unclear, ask questions. Knowing what you could … Continue reading →

Impress Your Teachers

For better or for worse I’m around a lot of teachers this time of the year (and throughout the coming year). This is the time when most teachers are preparing their courses. They sit and create outlines. They type up their syllabi. They consult the required textbooks for the course they are about to teach. In all of this preparation (something that most take very seriously) there is an underlying anxiety that is manifested from horror stories and past experiences of teaching. This anxiety is expressed normally as a joke to lessen the sense of unease these teachers feel as … Continue reading →