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A historic event: Puerto Rico is…
Puerto Rico is everything but well. Imagine siting at the balcony of your apartment while you watch and hear the rain fall; but this is not your average rainfall. This is a torrential; 150mph wind is blowing the rain parallel to the street. It almost seems like the rain is going to fall up as much as it falls down. This is exactly how every American citizen in Puerto Rico felt on Tuesday the 19th and Wednesday the 20th of September. These were the days that Hurricane Maria, a historical hurricane category 4, made landfall in Puerto Rico completely changing the landscape: the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Puerto Rico since 1932 (two years before my grandfather was born).
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Student-Budget Traveling
If you’re thinking that I’m doing a lot of traveling, you’re right! But, if you’re thinking that I have unlimited dollars to do that, you’re wrong! I always do student-budget traveling not a lavish one. Purchasing basic economy fare, staying at hostel or Airbnb, trying to find ‘free things to do’ in my destinations. That’s what I do.
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Transformational Teaching and Learning Conference
On April 17-18, Texas A&M hosted its inaugural Transformational Teaching & Learning Conference (TTLC). Hundreds of faculty members, graduate instructors, and administrators from different A&M campuses across Texas attended this event. Some even flied to College Station across time zones from Qatar. Faculty with award-winning teaching experience from other universities were invited to speak at this conference as well. It was a great occasion to celebrate and promote teaching excellence and innovation at our school, and a valuable experience to exchange ideas about teaching with people from outside of our own department and program. As a graduate student attending and presenting at this conference, I enjoyed hearing about effective teaching strategies and interesting project design from other faculty members and my fellow grad students.