From June of my junior year until June of my senior year, I worked an average of 17 hours per week at Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Shop in Natick, Massachusetts. I was required to work two weekend shifts, and at least one week night shift, per week. It was an exciting job, and I thoroughly enjoyed serving ice cream, making shakes and sundaes, and interacting with customers...
English as a course was too foreign for my math and science oriented brain to grasp, never really appealing to me because it was subjective, unlike in math and science where everything was black and white rather than shades of gray. Wading through the depths of literal and figurative meanings, trying to put myself in authors’ shoes, I desperately needed a road map.....
I am a swimmer.My first memory of swimming is that of a swim lesson I was having in the small “kiddie” pool that sat next to the six-lane, Olympic-sized pool where the big kids swam. The kiddie pool, at the time, was simply an above-ground basin jutting up about ten feet, requiring a ladder from the ground to access it...
The man confidently strode into the Algebra II classroom, shutting and locking the door behind him on his way to the board. He wore thick, stocky glasses and sported a bulky cast around his wrist and hand. Picking up a marker, he started writing on the glossy whiteboard, only to roll his eyes at the dried up marker and throw it across the room, barely missing a student’s head.....
My job as lightboard operator consists of not only programming and running the lights during each of five dance showcases per year, but also hanging, wiring, and focusing the lighting instruments. We generally start preparing for each dance showcase about three weeks prior to rehearsal week. Typically, we meet several hours each night in order to program the lights and rehearse in conjunction with the dancers...
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