First Classes of the Year
Posted on August 28, 2007
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I’ve met my students for the new semester & enjoyed my initial interactions with them. I’m looking forward to the semester. It’s funny, when I redesigned the blog & swore off political rants (almost successfully), I thought I would write a lot more about teaching that I have wound up doing. There is the obvious problem, of course, that I do not blog anonymously, so I need to watch my tongue, especially when I am frustrated. But I find that I rarely want to write about even the successful & wonderful things that happen in the classroom. Thinking about this, I realized that there is a special kind of privacy involved in teaching that I am reluctant to violate. I don’t want to go all sentimental or quasi-sacred here, but I suppose what I’m feeling is a combination of sacred & profane motives, each of which make their secretive demands.
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PRIME NUMBER
Do we go to the old places
when we get to where
here is truly here
star is truly god
in the ancient sense of sense
before time pressed all the way in
at first a tardy boy
then a lazy blighter
or feisty woman to be clear
to be that good at math
do you have to be autistic
each forward calculation
on the back of something incalculable
like being touched.