1. I am going to meet a cheetah with EmmaRose tomorrow: https://bronxzoo.com/shop/wild-encounters This is has been talked about in our house for at least 10 years. We are all very excited.
  2. Seriously who schedules office hours for 2:30 – 4:30 on a Friday afternoon. I get a surprising number of customers, but boy I am drained.
  3. The word for the week is: PAPERWORK! Ugh, it is the worst. So much paperwork. It hasn’t stopped.
  4. Scott Galloway’s blog post hit me like a ton of bricks today. https://www.profgalloway.com/unreal-estate/ Darn Boomers (in jest)!!! I am just a Xennial trying to get ahead. Maybe its time to start buying virtual real estate. Its just literally nothing though???
  5. I have a new exam/project idea for my class. I am having students write book sections and do peer review. https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdB8r2YV/ Let’s see what happens. Don’t worry physics purists, we will go back to regular exams for electric fields and charges.
  6. This was my domain for almost ten years. It seems like I should have held on to it.

7. During my class last night, we started talking about Will Smith during our break. The students were so cute, they thought the TV show was what made him famous. I had to school them, old school! HAHAHA! Don’t worry we only listened to the first minute or so.

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