By Kat Kiefer-Newman Recently, I was at a fellow adjunct's house relaxing, enjoying a glass of something sweet, and talking about dining with several other colleagues. Without…
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By Kat Kiefer-Newman Spring seems to finally be here. I know because over on my Facebook page people have been posting for a couple of weeks now…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman From their laptops, their Blackberries, their iPhones, and now their iPads they Tweet. They Tweet in the library, the parking lot, walking along the…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I'm no Cupid. There are some things I am very good at, but I am seriously no Cupid. Nor am I a Yenta, a…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I've been sick. Very, very sick. We all get sick, I know. This Fall semester, though, the weather seems especially chaotic, and my students…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I was late. It almost never happens, but this semester I have an eight o'clock class and it's sometimes difficult to get ready and…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Do you remember writing those horrible gradeschool essays "What I did for my summer vacation"? I always hated those because we rarely did anything…
Last semester I walked into a class that I had been petitioning to teach since I began at this particular school. It is a class on the…
Last semester I walked into a class that I had been petitioning to teach since I began at this particular school. It is a class on the…
There are days when I wonder why I even got out of bed. In teaching, these days can sneak up on you when you aren't ready for…
