Category: Grad School

• Out with the old, in the with the new!

  

  Happy New Year! I hope that everyone has had a great holiday season! Mine has been pretty great! Spent time with old friends, with new friends, and everything in between! As I look back on this past year there have been ups and downs, good times, and rough times. There have been times that I…

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  January 1, 2026

  Adventures, book talk, Enjoy, Friends, Grad School, Life, life lessons, my life, Things to Ponder, Year in Review

  book, books, Bullet Journal, Enjoy, Family, goals, journal, Life, life lessons, my life, New Year, outside time, pondering, reflection, teacher life, travel, writing

• SSMA

  

  Happy Sunday! I hope that everyone had a great week! This week was super crazy and hectic. For one I traveled last weekend so Monday was exhausting. However, it was so worth it! One of my cousins retired from the military and the police force so he had a retirement party. I enjoy getting together…

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  November 16, 2025

  Friends, Good times, Grad School, Gratitude, Life, life lessons, my life, science, stories from school, Student life, teacher life

  education, Grad School, Graduate degree, Life, life lessons, life of a science teacher, math, my life, pondering, presentations, science, SSMA, Student life, teacher life, teaching, travel, writing

• 20 bucks worth of gas? In a Tahoe?

  

  Happy Sunday! I hope that everyone is having a great weekend! My weekend was good, long and not nearly as productive as I was hoping for but over all, not bad! I am not sure If I mentioned I joined a pool league again. It has been nice! I have made some new friends, I…

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  October 12, 2025

  Friends, games, Grad School, Life, Online dating, People are crazy, Pool

  Family, Grad School, Graduate degree, haha, Life, love, mental health, my life, Online dating, People are crazy, Pool, writing

• Nay moves to Texas… Continued

  17.5 years ago I sat in an interview with a principal and an assistant principal. Side note she was so scary in the interview! haha Those 2 people took a chance on a kid. I was straight out of college. Like literally I had walked across the stage 2 weeks before the interview. I could…

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  September 24, 2025

  Friends, Good times, Grad School, Life, life lessons, my life, science, Shout out, stories from school, Student life, teacher life, Things to Ponder

  education, Friends, friendships, Life, life lessons, life of a science teacher, math, my life, pondering, reflection, school, science, Shout out, stories from school, Student life, teacher friends, teacher life, teachers, teaching, writing

• Evel Knievel before coffee?!

  

  Good afternoon! I hope that everyone is doing well! So I finally finished that pesky paper I have been working on for weeks! haha It is due today but my goal was to get to work super early yesterday and lock myself in my classroom and work on it for an hour uninterrupted! Well I…

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  May 1, 2025

  Adventures, Grad School, haha, Insurance, Life, Oops, People are crazy, Starbucks, Things to Ponder

  Adventures, cant-make-this-up, confused, confusing, confusion, evil knievel, Grad School, haha, homework, Insurance, Life, life lessons, my life, papers, People are crazy, pondering, real-life, Starbucks, travel, what the what?, writing

• Winter has arrived in Texas

  

  Happy Monday! I hope that all my Texas people have stayed warm and safe. I didn’t do much of anything this holiday weekened. I have already fallen behind on my blog goal! don’t worry I will get it together! haha Classes started this past week. I am taking classes on Monday and Thursday. I have…

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  January 20, 2025

  Good times, Grad School, haha, Life, my life, teacher life

  Christmas, cold, Family, Life, my life, pondering, questions, reflection, snow, teacher life, travel, winter

• bullet journals

  

  So most people that know me know that I like a good list. Heck I even like a bad list. I like to make lists all kinds of lists; to-do lists, grocery lists, lists of things I like, books I have read, books I want to read, movies I wanna see, Movies I have seen,…

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  January 6, 2025

  Bullet Journal, DIY, Grad School, how-to, Life, life lessons, lists, my life, Student life, Suggestions

  Bullet Journal, journal, Life, life lessons, my life, organization, teacher life, washi tape

• Welcome 2025

  

  Happy Wednesday and Happy New Year! I hope that everyone had a great and safe New Year’s Eve! Mine was pretty good. Spent the evening with some friends, played some games, ate some food, over all it was a pretty good evening! As one year comes to an end and another starts there is the…

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  January 1, 2025

  Adventures, Family, Friends, Good times, Grad School, Gratitude, haha, Life, life lessons, lists, my life, reflection, Student life, Suggestions, Things to Ponder, Year in Review

  2025\, books, Family, Friends, friendships, goals, Grad School, Graduate degree, Gratitude, haha, Life, life lessons, my life, New Year, pondering, reflection, self reflection, Things to Ponder, writing, Year in Review

• One down

  Happy Thursday! I hope that everyone is having a good week! My week is going so slow! How is it only Thursday!? Luckily my students haven’t been too crazy yet. I man next week might get a little crazier but as of right now, not so bad! We are all counting down the days to…

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  December 12, 2024

  Family, Grad School, how-to, Life, life lessons, my life, reflection, Student life, teacher life

  college, education, Family, Grad School, grades, Graduate degree, learning, learning new things, Life, life lessons, my life, pondering, reflection, stories from school, Student life, teacher life

• Would you eat it?

  

  Happy Monday! I hope that everyone had a great weekend! This may sound silly but I think I have finally gotten in to a routine! haha It only took like 7 weeks to figure it out! haha Man these kids this year are super needy. I don’t know what is going on at the elementary…

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  October 7, 2024

  Cooking, Grad School, Gute Survey, haha, Life, life lessons, my life, Student life, teacher life, Things to Ponder

  blog, Cooking, food, Gute Survey, haha, leftovers, Life, life lessons, life of a science teacher, my life, pondering, survey says, surveys, teacher life