Extra credit

I finished my doctoral degree when I was 26 and took a job at medium sized university in the midwest. In my first semester, I was given three sections of an introductory level course to[…]

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Best holiday ever

The cold coke ran across my tongue and down my throat. After the stifling humidity of Manchester International Airport I gulped down the refreshing drink eagerly. I finished the bottle and screwed the lid back[…]

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A flight to remember

My Mile High Experience I spent my summer at the University of California in Berkeley, studying Arabic, when I had to return home to Alabama. My several connecting flights made the fare cheaper, but it[…]

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The suck (part i)

We had been out in this hellhole for almost a year now and it was obviously starting to show. Everyday the same routine…minimal sleep, night temperatures of 90F and daytime highs of up to 140F,[…]

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Silver lining

I am a firm believer that through any disaster, man made or natural, there is always a small sparkle of something positive. I had left two weeks prior to the recent disaster that hit America[…]

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