TA Blog Posts

By Carlyncia McDowell, African American Studies Dear Student Intellectuals: As your TA for Intro to African American Studies, I want to advocate for something that might feel unexpected alongside history […]

By Amanda, Parks Management I used to loathe reflection essays. As a Parks Management student, I spent more time outdoors than in a traditional classroom, yet I wrote papers nearly […]

By Zilin Li, Biology This fall I’m teaching BIOL 1107L (Principles of Biology I Lab), and I’ve been thinking a lot about how to help first-year students write in a […]

By Seth Nelson, Mathematics I have a confession to make. I started out suspicious of WIP. I am a math PhD student, and, if I am being honest, I felt […]

By Chris Grammar is the structure of a language… esp. the study of the structure of sentences and words [and] of the norms or conventions of usage and communication. The […]

By Allison Hidalgo, Geology It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when I started to feel like a scientist. Maybe it was during my first upper-level lab course in college, or the […]

By Thomas Jones, WIP 7001 Recently, I visited my hometown, a quaint refuge from the familiarities of general convenience and tangible progression. I drove by the same landmarks that were […]

By Olivier Pilette, WIP 7001 These days, coffee in hands, as I’m doing my PhD “comps,”I have deep and intensive encounters with various types of text and writing styles. Thinking […]