I know I'm long overdue for a post as school has started, the CWC has been built up, and I've bought another fun outfit to show off. But until I post the more monument things, I'm going to post a challenge between me and one of the undergraduate students here at Ashoka.
During a tutoring session yesterday, a student and I discussed the difficulties of writing and how best to combat them, because, writing doesn't really come easy to anyone. If it does, I don't trust that you're telling the truth. So, I challenged her to write 10 minutes a day, maybe in the morning before classes. And I said I'd do the same. We pinky swore to it.
So here I am, writing just to write. I constantly want to take a breather and think about what I should write, so that when I publish this it sounds interesting. It's easy to fail at that. Which is a good case in point to prove I need to just write a little bit each day.
Yesterday was my first very full tutoring day. I had a relatively easy morning, but had tutoring sessions after lunch, commented briefly by email on a student's draft, and then had three back to back sessions during our late hours, 7-10pm. Afterwards I was exhausted, but felt great that all my sessions had gone nearly the full hour and that I felt as though there was progress made.
Writing for ten minutes when you're gauging the time can be very strange considering I usually spend between 45-60 minutes on one entry. I find myself wanting to read through all I've written to discover what should come next. It's a little comforting to know I am struggling with the same writing procrastination as my students--the truth is that that struggle never disappeared.
And because this is a blog, and I don't have to make sense, here's a photo of the student's plan to create a mural in the CWC:
And here is me in my new outfit!
During a tutoring session yesterday, a student and I discussed the difficulties of writing and how best to combat them, because, writing doesn't really come easy to anyone. If it does, I don't trust that you're telling the truth. So, I challenged her to write 10 minutes a day, maybe in the morning before classes. And I said I'd do the same. We pinky swore to it.
So here I am, writing just to write. I constantly want to take a breather and think about what I should write, so that when I publish this it sounds interesting. It's easy to fail at that. Which is a good case in point to prove I need to just write a little bit each day.
Yesterday was my first very full tutoring day. I had a relatively easy morning, but had tutoring sessions after lunch, commented briefly by email on a student's draft, and then had three back to back sessions during our late hours, 7-10pm. Afterwards I was exhausted, but felt great that all my sessions had gone nearly the full hour and that I felt as though there was progress made.
Writing for ten minutes when you're gauging the time can be very strange considering I usually spend between 45-60 minutes on one entry. I find myself wanting to read through all I've written to discover what should come next. It's a little comforting to know I am struggling with the same writing procrastination as my students--the truth is that that struggle never disappeared.
And because this is a blog, and I don't have to make sense, here's a photo of the student's plan to create a mural in the CWC:
And here is me in my new outfit!
