by Alison | Dec 19, 2025 | Blog, Just Life
I love my job. I love being with students, and I love seeing them come to understand a difficult idea. I love seeing them share their thoughts and discuss important and meaningful questions (We discuss questions like what we can learn from nature and whether or not we...
by Alison | Sep 29, 2024 | Blog
I started working in my current position in the Faculty of English Language and Culture at my university last fall. Every semester, I have between 100 and 200 hundred new students. Over just three semesters, that’s already a lot of new students, and learning all of...
by Alison | Sep 15, 2024 | Blog, Chinese Language and Culture, Just Life
Today, one of my students came up to the front of the classroom before class started and just wanted to chat. We ended up talking for almost the entirety of the twenty-minute break between the classes, and I really enjoyed the conversation. Part way into the...
