Best Practices… Winning Homework 15 Sep 201615 Sep 2016 Today's blog post stems from my having graded 40+ labs this week and the entirely shocking bi-modal distribution of professionalism. The students who handed in their lab assignments and did…
Grad School How To Back to School (Sanity) Savings 9 Sep 20169 Sep 2016 I love the start to a new school year: fresh faces, imminent adventures, a new t-shirt from the book store. AND making new To Do Calendars, buying new used books, warming up…
Best Practices Studying for Exams 7 Sep 2016 There are times when being bright is a handicap. Most of the bright high school students I meet and work with do not have useable study habits because they never…
Abundant Life SD Badlands 3 Sep 20166 Sep 2016 Last week I made my way out to and through the South Dakota Badlands for the first time. Deciding to forgo my headset, I walked along the trail listening to the…
Grad School How To Inappropriate Shoes 31 Aug 20161 Sep 2016 Two aspects that I love about TA'ing geology labs are 1) learning new things and 2) going on field trips (think of field trips as recess for college students and their TA's/Professors). As…
Life at the Front Lines Hope and Optimism 20 Aug 201621 Aug 2016 "If there is hope in the future, there power in the present." --Zig Ziglar quoting John Maxwell At the recommendation of a serial entrepreneur, I picked up Helen Keller's collection…
Life at the Front Lines BNGSS 14 Aug 201615 Aug 2016 Of the 29 applications submitted in February, the SD Office of Economic Development accepted 11 business plans for the Statewide student division of the Governor's Giant Vision Competition held in April. Getting…
Grad School How To… Pithy Sayings II 13 Aug 201613 Aug 2016 In no particular order, the second set of my pithy sayings follow. 8. You have to take the salt with the sugar. No job, no city, no relationship exists in…
Grad School How To… Pithy Sayings I 13 Aug 201613 Aug 2016 Below are sayings I find myself repeating when I come up short, need encouragement, or want to improve. Self-talk matters. The conversation in my head stops long enough for me…
Geological Engineering… Rock Mechanics Manicure (Part II) 6 Aug 20167 Aug 2016 The black shale contained crude oil and I thrilled the first time I smelled it! By the middle of the third day, though, I saw the room moving. Then I looked…
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