Well, it’s after mindnight… whoa, clearly I meant to type midnight but mindnight is cool too.

v.. tired again:

highlights:
-ultimate frisbee game
- great workshops on ELL, dual language immersion, immigration (that is the theme of this residency – very relevant currently and important to me personally and the discussion is great since the student body is actually pretty diverse in terms of race and closeness to immigration)
- been having a pretty good time hanging out with folks after hours. There was a fire last night. Also, have really enjoyed a few conversations with people I’d just met… seems like the residency enables interesting/real/”deep”/honest discussions right away.
-good advice from returning students
-nice solo nature walk this morning in light rain
-feeling very excited about what I will learn this semester

mixed bags:
-very busy… want more down time but don’t want to miss cool workshops or fun time… also wanted to be exercising more
-haven’t felt very academically challenged by advising sessions… still interesting, but don’t know how to up the ante – maybe w/in the group this isn't possible… don’t want to be a jerk/teacher’s pet/pretentious

ugg. It’s late.

Tomorrow is: Workshop on electronic licensure portfolios, then critical thinking, then lunch, then advising time, then learning more about the library’s systems, then work on study plan and research and dinner and film discussion.

Whoo.