Self-tutoring about past events: the tutor reflects on the last lab course he took. Chemistry was my favorite subject in grade 12. I had planned to take a chemistry/biochemistry degree at university, so in first and second year I took …
Self-tutoring about past events: the tutor reflects… As I mention in yesterday’s post, exploring the forest was important to me as a kid. I had a little motorbike, of course, so venturing miles away was easy. One time a friend …
Self-tutoring about situations in the past: the tutor reflects. When I was 12 I got a motorbike – a little Honda 50. It was old, but after a trip to the shop, ran fine. Behind our house was land that …
Self-tutoring about style: the tutor recalls Pepsi platform sneakers. Likely, Pepsi platform sneakers were the first fashion product I realized. Sometime in the late 70s, I recall, they arrived. It may have been ’78, springtime. I noticed someone wearing a …
Self-tutoring about how things disappear and where they go: the tutor reflects. Before summer was halfway gone, I went for a run, like often, at the field. It was a hot evening, with little breeze, and the sun was still …
Self-tutoring about back-to-school memories: the tutor reflects. There was a kid I knew in grades 4, 5 and 6. He was very popular, but I didn’t know him outside of school. Let’s call him Roy, but that wasn’t his name. …
Self-tutoring about ’70s culture: the tutor reflects about Shaun Cassidy. I recall “Da Doo Run Run” from the late ’70s. I didn’t know it was a cover, or even that the ’77 version was by Shaun Cassidy. It was a …
Self-tutoring about my school years: the tutor reflects on lost memory. One year of my life I reflect on perhaps more than others is fifth grade. I moved often as a kid because my father was in the military. Therefore, …
Self-tutoring about people who stand out in memory: the tutor mentions one from his past. I met many characters at university, including my wife. Most people at university were there to get a career. There were others, however, whose motivation …
Self-tutoring about life in the past: the tutor reflects about a lab partner he had. In university, I didn’t like labs much. I took physics and chemistry first and second year, but afterwards I’d had enough of labs. That’s why …