It’s Wednesday – as good a time as any to chat about wellness.
Hopefully, like me, you’re making progress with your health and fitness goals.
If you aren’t, don’t despair.
Every day is a new day, which means you have another day to begin moving in the desired direction.
Remember: Strive for progress – not perfection.
Join in the Fray: Where do you stand on your 2015 health and fitness goals? Are you making progress?
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Dude, that photo is not horrible – stop it! Giving you The Look.
One-L Michelles are almost as cool as 2-L Michelles – I love them! 🙂
Thanks for sharing the page – I think you’re being too modest!
Like, what else would you like to know? You can see a bit about her, as well as me, at this page,
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/heroes.shtml
Her name is Michele (one l). That photo of me is HORRIBLE, I pulled my hair back to make me look OK for my mom, who insisted right to the end that i pull my hair back when seeing her, so she could pretend it really wash;’t long. 🙂 I also was shaving my chin around that point, a rarity for my adult life. Much better photos of me around.
No, you didn’t mention this!!! What??!! Tell me more.
Don’t know if i mentioned this already, but my single biggest accomplishment was a student, a BW, who not only got a degree in engineering, but went on to become a Rhodes scholar, got a PhD from Oxford (material science), and eventually came back to UC and took over the program i was working for, i.e. became my boss for over a decade.
The important thing is that you enjoyed your job – and obviously it showed because of the students’ response. VERY good for a math teacher! 🙂
I emailed my Web Master today to ask her about the comment feature. Hope to have it adjusted by next week.
The patent attorney thing crossed my mind when i started my second year, but the original idea was to become an environmental lawyer. Decided i didn’t wanna be a lawyer in the middle of my second year, but liked what i was doing tutoring students, so i dropped out of law school and kept doing the job, and the rest is my career.
I would think some sort of setting controls the depth, but i’m not a web designer, i only know that math. 🙂
Gotcha; gotcha on the teaching/academic thing. Were you thinking of becoming a patent attorney? Just curious; the engineering/law school combo prompted the question.
I’m putting a note on my To Do List to check into my comments feature. I looked at it and saw it went 10 deep, but I need to find out what to do to change that.
No reply button on your last comment, so i’m doing it this way (as if a brand new thread). For full disclosure, i was NOT a professor, in any of these fields, i was not in either the math or stat department, that not being my major. All i have degree-wise is a bachelor in mechanical engineering (plus a couple of years of law school). You need a PHD to be a professor. I worked for the Student Learning Center as a tutor in stat/math, plus did teach courses for units in stat three summers, also was a student affairs officer (my career job, did that my last 15 years there), was responsible for the tutorial center for the Multicultural Engineering Program, which provided support for underrepresented students in the School of Engineering (namely minorities and women), and this included doing workshops in second year calculus which were supposed to merely support the students as they took these courses, but as i said, i ended up being the instructor for not only the students in the program but, via their friends and the friends; friends, for the class at large. Did the professor’s job at a fraction of the pay.
Tee hee hee! How wonderful to know a mat/stats/calc prof with a sense of humor and a good disposition! 🙂
Oh, please don’t stop.:-))
Now that, I remember! 🙂
(I’m going to stop joking about this; I promise. *Crosses fingers behind back*)
Fact of physics: a rigid body will experience severe stress when it experiences a collision. A more flexible body will still experience stresses, but much less so, due to its ability to dissipate the effects of the collision.
Shucks, the vicissitudes of life will make you change – you have to deal whether you want to or not. Easier to deal with when one is flexible about learning – when you’re not, it makes dealing with change so much harder.
People get comfortable and think they can maintain what they have exactly as it is. Impossible! Change is the essence of life, in fact even individual cells in our bodies don’t stay the same, the only way we survive physically is though a process of constant re-creation. One of my favorite Dead references evokes the concept of “never ever land.” What you describe is smugness, pure and simple. And when the inevitable happens and their little protected enclave start fraying, those who gave up on expanding their sphere of knowledge and experience will have a very hard time doing what they need, to do,….. learning something new.. They will in fact have to learn how to do that.
I’ve actually had people tell me, “I don’t want to learn anything else!” Is that ghastly, or what??? I suppose I would view it differently if they felt that way because they were busy applying what they’ve learned (and we know when you do that, you learn more). Alas, the people who have made this statement said exactly what they meant and meant exactly what they said.
Ugh.
Just typing and thinking about that type of mentality makes my head want to explode.
Michelle, the very idea that there could be a point at which i would think no more progress is necessary is scary. It would most likely mean stagnation and smugness rather than perfection. I plan to always be improving, in some way.
Jeff, I like the way you think! I believe the definition of “perfect” varies and is unique from person to person, and YES! the only way to get to that state of “perfection” is to make progress in that direction. The beauty is that we also have the option to change that definition as our life changes – AND as we see fit. I personally plan to never stop progressing – how about you?
One could say progress is what we ideally get as we aim for the just-exactly-perfect. The idea is to realize that progress as the only way to get to perfection.