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		<title>Tied to paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 15:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Is anyone out there?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how, about a decade ago, I would go through withdrawal if I didn&#8217;t get a chance to check this blog every day. Now I forget it exists (existed?) more often than I remember. That being said, I miss having a space to air my thoughts. I have left North Dakota and am in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>If my great-grandparents&#8217; generation knew our suffering&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2020 18:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I got to hear a lot of stories from and about my great-grandmother while growing up. My great-grandmother was among the wave of German-Russians who were pushed out of Russia by the czar around the end of the 19th century. Her family was forcibly marched from Russia back to Germany, where they weren&#8217;t wanted, so [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting started is hard to do</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2020 20:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I originally posted this on EngineerBlogs about 9 years ago. This semester has been rather difficult in terms of keeping up with things (partially due to COVID, partially due to simple workload issues), so I thought it would help to review this when I start to struggle with where to start because, let&#8217;s be honest, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I miss my office</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am genuinely starting to hate working from home.  There are far too many distractions, and I have a hard time getting into the mindset where I need to be focused and working. I am very used to going to work early, coming home for a lunch break, working late, and then coming home.  Once [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>In with the new (teaching methods)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a small victory this semester, and it happened completely by accident.  Out of the classes I was teaching this semester, two of them were new and only one was a repeated prep.  Of the new ones, one of them was really dragging.  It is an advanced class that&#8217;s highly mathematical, and as it&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pretending to be normal in a pandemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I first heard that the public schools were going to be shifting school online, I was pretty outraged because I thought they should just cancel for the rest of the school year.  I thought it was ridiculous because I knew that most parents were going to be trying to do their jobs from home.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting students in sync</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the things I&#8217;ve decided to do with the remainder of the semester is to require students to meet with me once or twice per week online.  I know all of the advice is to go asynchronous, but I don&#8217;t think I can go completely that way. Frankly, we&#8217;re all feeling lonely and cooped [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>COVID-19</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I figured since we&#8217;re all socially isolating, this is as good a time as any to start writing in the blog again.  I&#8217;m thinking I can detail all the fun with pivoting online.  Or how not to go crazy without having someone to talk to. How is everyone holding up out there? (I also figured [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wrong wrong wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 01:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was working on something today that suddenly brought me back to a meeting I had about a decade ago. I was working as a researcher but also teaching as a lecturer in one of the academic departments. I had been getting frustrated because I wanted to teach more technical courses. The department chair kept [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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