Long Day
So I have this adviser now for this term and I don’t understand him. He speaks English, but it’s like I need to see his lips move or his expressions or his hands flailing, something! I’m just not understanding him…Nice guy, well educated…but jeesh, major communication problems. Actually I think we might be very much a like but we’re walking in parallel lines and can’t quite meet anywhere.strange…
I have worked with people like that. It’s like we are in parallel world’s… can see each other but can’t communicate. Very frustrating.
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I really hope you can find some way to communicate or this will be a long term!
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would an after class meeting with him help?
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*smile* RYN: I understand the “walking in parallel lines” thing; that’s how I feel with my maths student Nadia. I agree with you that we know what qestions to ask after we absorb the concept a bit. However, some of us do more concept-absorbing than others, I think. My point of breakdown with Madia was when she had to place the digit 1 in the correct place in a column that already contained two digits, 2 and 3. She put it after the 3. (i.e. “2,3,1”) I said “Please count: 2,3,…” and she correctly continued “4” Then I again asked her to place the 1 in the correct place and she again put it after the 3. She hasn’t yet sufficiently absorbed the concept of ordering numbers – and I wonder if she ever will. I wish she’d just decide “There are better things to do than maths” and take up something else instead.
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Sometimes I think my husband and I walk parallel lines…then we crash into each other down the way a bit and laugh about it.
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