another day, another blog
ahhhhhh swamped with work now..!!  my "supervisor" (not official, but pretty much the case) just dumped a huge task on me today...right before I had to leave to go see harry potter 3, which I've been trying to get together with my friend to see for like 1.5 months!!  and now I'm too tired to do it...just enough time to squeeze in a blog =P

harry potter 3 was pretty good, some parts bothered me, partly cuz I knew what happened in the book and it didn't happen in the movie. daniel radcliffe (sp?) isn't so great at acting. the kids seemed a bit too old in general?..with the exception of hermione.  but somehow the idea of time travel a la back to the future will always delight.

my friend that I saw the movie with also got another friend to come, someone I didn't know. both of the teach highschool credit courses in independent institutions! that's three people I know now who's doing that this summer.  my friend's friend was also saying how much he enjoyed teaching. makes me consider (not for the first time) the possibility of me teaching. if not as a career, maybe I could try out what they're doing. I don't know. seems like too much work...all that prepping during your off hours. and I really don't think I could speak knowledgeably on a topic for how long...half an hour?...several times a day and every day.  I think back on my best subjects in highschool...and realize that I only understood/memorized enough to get by. there is very little that I can actually teach, and have the understanding behind it to explain it. say for math...the teacher would just do a proof before teaching the applicable parts...well, I'd do the applicable parts fine, and all the proof does is convince to me what I'm doing to solve the problems is bone fide. but I would definitely not be able to explain the proof cuz I never really understood it totally in the first place. and for more lingual stuff, it was definitely all memorizing.  I keep considering teaching because afterall I did spend 6 summers doing daycamp, and I've somehow managed to teach many a class. I guess at daycamp you just talk for like 10 minutes and hand out stuff for them to do. and running games or whatever is even easier. but to speak knowledgeably and continuously on an academic subject? totally different story...  and yeah, if I graduate with an engineering degree, and for whatever reason decide not to do engineering related work...then what would I do? I've seen engineering graduates become teachers...so that might be a possible contingency plan? but again, all those reasons above. wow..that was somewhat long and blabbery. hope you enjoyed your first ride on my train of thought.



- posted by Andrew @ 1:10 AM