Leading the HGSE Writers Room was a highlight of my year, and that has everything to do with the members. With warmth, support, and humor, the group tried a different genre of writing each time we met. When classes moved online, we kept writing together over Zoom. We focused on humor writing at our last meeting (I’m biased, but it’s the best genre) and collaborated on a group-written piece. — Sarah Garfinkel (Ed.M. candidate in the Language and Literacy Program)
Remote Learning Helpline
Hello, thank you for calling the Remote Learning Helpline. We are here to support you in all of your Zoom-related emergencies. Please choose from the following options.
-If your cat insists on auditing all of your classes now, please press 1.
-If you share the wrong screen and now everyone in your breakout room has seen your “Cool Haircuts” Pinterest board, please press 2.
-If nobody talks and then everybody talks at once, please press 3.
-If your WiFi crashes in the middle of your presentation on Successful Remote Learning, please press 4 but also pause to giggle because, well, irony.
-If you try to share a research article on early childhood development in the class chat but instead send everyone a recipe for muffins, please press 5.
-If you spend hours selecting the perfect Zoom background, only to realize your computer is not compatible with digital backgrounds, and also oops–you probably should have been spending all that time on homework anyway, please press 6.
-If you receive distracting “dings” from promotional emails assuring you that your favorite makeup/shoe/teacup brand is doing everything they can and offering a hot 20% off deal, please press 7. Also please send us that great teacup coupon.
-If even your dreams are pixelated now, please press 8.
-If you have spent more time thinking about The Brady Bunch in the past two months than you have in your entire life, please press 9.
-If you’re done with classes and honestly starting to miss Zoom, please press # to be transferred to the Graduation & Nostalgia Helpline.
Written by Emily Allen, Sarah Garfinkel, Madeline Gies, Kelsey Guziak, Linda Martucci, Niharika Sanyal, Steven Torrisi, Margaret White, and Robin Wu.
HGSE Admissions Blog 