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Registration Opens for Student Research Week
This will be my first year attending Student Research Week. And needless to say, I am pumped. The countdown timer on the SRW website is ticking away, and has officially reached 96 days until the conference—marked March 16th-20th, 2020.
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Having effective conversations via video conferencing
This is not the first time for me to teach or communicate online, but the past few months were definitely the most intense time period during which all of us are using video conferencing for almost everything. As a pretty outgoing person, I enjoy face-to-face communication more, but knowing that many of us may not be able to meet again in the near future, we all have to learn to adapt to this “new norm” during the pandemic. There are a few thoughts I wanted to share about video conferencing, including how it felt differently from a face-to-face conversation, how to improve our communication, and the importance of showing respect and checking in with your team.
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I Finally Bought A New, Expensive, Phone
I ride my bicycle to work every day. I have been doing so for the last 4 years. I don’t like carrying the bag on my shoulders because it gets heavy so I installed a bike rack in the back and put two carabiners on one side of the rack. The bag now securely hangs from the carabiners. People who have seem my design often compliment me on how it is simple and ingeneous. So, I should be happy, but just like the primitive human (who was not content on getting out of the cave or building a fire had to invent a wheel so that he could escape all those uninvited guests who had gathered around the fire that he had just build outside his cave) I wasn’t satisfied either.
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Historical Significance
History remembers who we were, reveals why we are, and predicts what we will become. Therefore, it is vital to know it, understand it, and apply it with objectivity and integrity.