ace's blog » Teaching http://acedanger.com a place for me to record events in my life. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:01:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Application to University of Memphis http://acedanger.com/2006/02/02/application-to-university-of-memphis/ http://acedanger.com/2006/02/02/application-to-university-of-memphis/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:11:16 +0000 petewood http://www.acedanger.com/wordpress/?p=56 I just sent my application to the University of Memphis! YAY!!!

1 item down, several to go!

[X] (1) Apply to UoM.

[ ] (2) Request official transcript from UNF.

[ ] (3) Take GRE (should happen in April 2006).

[ ] (4) Two Recommendation Letters. My current choices are my immediate manager, Jeff Michael, and his boss, Gaby Sgolombis.

[ ] (5) Wait.

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]]> http://acedanger.com/2006/02/02/application-to-university-of-memphis/feed/ career change? http://acedanger.com/2006/01/26/career-change/ http://acedanger.com/2006/01/26/career-change/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:01:53 +0000 petewood http://www.acedanger.com/wordpress/?p=52 I’ve been pretty unhappy since moving to Memphis. I think ultimately, I’m unhappy with my career. I don’t think I like doing the same thing everday. I’m not really helping anybody or anything like that. I just sit here and type. The unhappiness has really effected the quality of my marriage and my life as of late. Meri and I are arguing a lot and I’m saying some very mean things towards the woman I chose to be my wife. Since I know I don’t want to lose my wife and son, I think I should consider trying to make myself happy and all other things should fall into place. Meri and I were brainstorming last night and she thought that maybe I would be happy if I started to teach. At first, I didn’t think I liked that idea but the more I thought about it, the more I could see myself being a math or computer teacher. Since I’m fairly competant with both subjects, I think I owe it to myself and my family to try to make a change. This won’t be a quick thing move either, I have some research to do. I am planning on going back to school to pursue a masters in computer science with an emphasis on mathematics. The local university (University of Memphis) has a masters program in CS so I will begin to check that out. I also need to find out if there is any demand, or will be any in 3 years or so, for math teachers in HS or if they even offer computer classes. If they don’t have demand, then I may try to be an adjunct at a college or something. Who knows? Lots of questions now. I’m excited about maybe teaching but definitely going back to school. I just hope this is what I’m looking for out of life. It would be nice to feel like I’m helping people with other things than making them richer (Terminix made over a billion dollars for the first time in 2005)!

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