Is it okay to not be okay?

March 25, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

[Disclaimer, of sorts — I write for my own healing. Please don’t feel that you need help. I appreciate all of your support, I really really do. I just want to know that people are listening, and perhaps that I am giving voice to someone else who feels silent — that is enough for me.] […]

Evaluating the Evaluations

March 26, 2010.Reading time 5 minutes.

It’s evaluation time. For instructors and TA’s, I mean. And mine came out just as I imagined, all over the board. Some students loved me, others hated me, and a few were in the middle. I got comments like “Gradmommy is the best TA I’ve had at Stanford so far!” and “Gradmommy was unnecessarily aggressive […]