\u00a0<\/b>Hey everyone \u2013 if you\u2019re just checking in, I\u2019ve decided this week to post a blog a day in the spirit of capturing day-to-day life at Puget Sound. Check out my daily posts here \u2013 there will be one a day until at least next Sunday. Enjoy!<\/i><\/p>\n
I have a two-hour stretch of free time in an otherwise packed day, so I thought I\u2019d take a moment to share what I was up to for my second official day of daily blogging.<\/p>\n
I work at the Center for Writing, Learning & Teaching as a writing advisor, and I spent the first part of my day helping out with a paper editing session for one of the freshman writing seminar classes on Medieval literature. A lot of the time was spent discussing ideas, which is one of my favorite parts about being a writing advisor. Not only do I get to see students make connections they hadn\u2019t thought of via discussion, but usually I see some new connections I never would have thought of, too. The Writing Center, my interactions with professors, and my discussion classes have shown me how powerful discussion is as a vehicle for planning effective writing.<\/p>\n
After that I had three classes: Math of Computer Science, 17th<\/sup> Century British Literature, and Programming Language Paradigms. Ironically, there was actually a fair amount of overlap between math and 17th<\/sup> Century literature. We\u2019re studying formal languages in math \u2013 how to construct grammars and alphabets and words and vocabularies mathematically, so it\u2019s come to vaguely resemble an English class. See – there can be some overlap between math and Milton (at least I\u2019d like to think there is).<\/p>\n Now I\u2019ve got a brief stretch of free time before I go work at the Writing Center again \u2013 this time on advising students during our hour-long appointments. I\u2019m also meeting with another writing advisor later tonight to put the finishing touches on a proposal we\u2019re submitting to the National Conference on Peer Tutoring and Writing, a conference addressing approaches to and theory regarding peer tutoring and writing advising. The proposal\u2019s due Wednesday, so we\u2019ll probably spend a while on it.<\/p>\n Later tonight, baritone Sherrill Milnes is leading a masterclass I\u2019m going to try to go see, and I hope to work some piano practicing of my own in in the mean time. Lastly, I\u2019m also working on a scholarship application due Thursday \u2013 more details on that to come, but it involves designing an iPhone app in a week. I\u2019ve made a lot of progress on it, but there\u2019s so much left to do before Thursday!<\/p>\n That\u2019s all for now \u2013 stop by again tomorrow for my next post and some more updates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0Hey everyone \u2013 if you\u2019re just checking in, I\u2019ve decided this week to post a blog a day in the spirit of capturing day-to-day life at Puget Sound. Check out my daily posts here \u2013 there will be one a … Continue reading