Category: Academics
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Cross Registering 101
Prior to arriving at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, I had spent the last seven years running an English tutoring organization called Superior English Tutoring that specializes in small-group conversation refinement sessions for advanced, non-native English speakers. That sentence is my answer to the oft-encountered “What do you do?” question, but it hardly summarizes…
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An Unexpected Warm Welcome by Means of Statistics
It’s crazy to think that I have been a Master’s degree candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) for almost six weeks now. Thinking back to orientation and my first few days at HGSE (HUG-SY, that is what everyone calls it here, it sounds like a bunch of warm embraces coming your way),…
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Why I Tell Anyone Who Will Listen to Take this Class
As a staff member and aspiring part-time student at HGSE, I had the luxury of time and conversation before diving into classes. This is how I discovered Adult Development with Deborah Helsing in the spring of 2017. At the time, I was a non-degree student with dreams of receiving an acceptance email when a current…
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“Shopping Spree” Tips on Course Previews
Before the semester had even started, I kept being asked from friends and family what classes I would be taking. The reality is you don’t quite know until you go through course previews and registration during orientation week. As an avid HGSE blog reader when I was going through the application process to HGSE, I…
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What is Course Shopping?
Course shopping was an entirely new experience for me when I first arrived at HGSE. In undergrad, we would choose our classes before the semester began, and then we had a few weeks into the semester to add or drop classes. At HGSE, we have something called course shopping. For the fall semester, this two…
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Ode to “dark nights of the soul”: What I learned in T-550
Have you ever had that moment in a project where you see yourself, as if from above, and realize what a mess you’re in? Maybe the room is strewn with shreds of poster board, you’ve been breathing hot glue gun fumes for hours, and you can’t get the pieces of your structure to fit together.
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Specialized Studies: An amazing choice!
I arrived at the last minute, nervous and excited at the same time. It was just two days before orientation and I had left my job as a commercial airline pilot only one month before arriving in Cambridge. I had left my former decade-long life in Abu Dhabi and moved back to my home country…
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J-Term: For the Kids
I took this class for my students. I taught for five years in Dallas, Texas and I think about my students every day, especially the ones I didn’t know how to help. I think about my first grader, Tasha*, who was brilliant and creative, but faced enormous challenges in her home life that often manifested…
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J-term perspective: “the Sesame Street class”
When I was in college, winter break lasted for about a month and involved as much rest, relaxation, and Netflix as I could muster. Here at HGSE, winter break can take one of two forms, both of which have huge benefits. For students who want to recuperate from the fall, gear up for spring, explore…
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