Regular K

I am very surprised, but I won an award for teaching excellence in the Computer Science department. Yaay! I am so happy that my students liked me so much.

I was very happy to see that my teaching evaluations all came back so positive. The students all strongly agreed or agreed with everything in the forms and I got really encouraging comments all around.

I kinda want to teach a first year programming class in September so that I can teach the more basic concepts. I think it would be interesting to teach students who are learning their first language.

On Sunday, I worked out for the first time in … six years. Or whenever I last took PE in high school. I got a trial membership at a gym close by my house because I am kinda scrawny and weak. Some of you know that I had trouble pushing open the slot of a vending machine one time at work. Anyways, because I am so out of shape, half an hour of exercise was enough to tire me out. Even two days later, I could still feel it.

I went back today after work because I didn’t really have much else to do. I noticed that the treadmills have a “fit test” option, so I tried that out. It simulated a mostly flat area but with a bit of an incline half way through. While I was doing it, I felt good since I wasn’t getting exhausted. I am used to doing awful on any sort of test related to physical activity. Back in high school, I got zero on my tennis test because I could not, for the life of me, serve a tennis ball correctly. One of my attempts almost hit the teacher in the head, and he wasn’t even standing on the court. Anyways, after the five minute “fit test”, the computer thought a little while about my performance while I took a swig of water, thinking that maybe I wasn’t so out of shape after all. Then, I got back my results: Very Poor.

I guess I still have a ways to go.