Worthless Work

[Becky]

Well, I've already talked about myself in this thread, but I love being a graduate student. This week, I had the opportunity to co-facilitate teaching orientation for new graduate student teaching assistants at my university. Today, I facilitated micro-teaching (an opportunity where instructors give a lesson in 7 minutes, critique each other and are filmed). It's so exciting. I ran orientation with a Pharmacy professor, and we had some great conversations and worked quite well together. We each brought different perspectives to the day, and I learned things about her field.

And, in micro-teaching today, I facilitated with an electrical engineering professor. Again, it was so neat to work with someone in a background different from my own. Yet we all share a love for teaching and education.

Brian makes some good points about research, but at the same time (as someone who has co-authored on a number of publications), working on multiple projects gives you the chance to experience different areas of interest, research questions, working with different people. Granted, I'm not saying that quantity is necessarily better than quality, but I don't think in all cases it's necessarily bad. Depends on the field as well, I'm sure.

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

The Finnish conscription army had an advertisement.

Tee työtä jolla on tarkoitus.
Do a work that has a meaning.

So there I went, spent a month practicing for a soldier career. Then was hospitalised.

So, come to Finnish army, everyone. Find your soldier side.