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Meet Tim, Our Creative Web Designer

January 20, 2014 by Sara Nolan

Meet Timothy, our web designer and collaborator, student and (yes) teacher. Meet Timothy: our savvy website designer, Creative Lead at Iron Bound Designs, and participant in Essay Intensive Summer 2013 Workshop.  Freshly accepted into RIT, his first choice school, Timothy can also be found levitating (with his laptop).  Today, Tim is our featured student (on the blog screen)--not only the awesome invisible force who makes our online presence possible, presentable, professional and...teen-tastic.  We love Tim. E.I:   What’s your favorite word? Tim: Schadenfreude [He spells it out.] E.I.:  When did you learn the word—and how to spell it correctly? Tim: My music teacher—formerly an airline steward! One of his things was vocab in music class.  How that makes sense is unknown. E.I.:  Why do you love the word?  What does it mean? Tim: It sounds nice. Unbastardized German: Taking pleasure in someone else’s pain.  Continue Reading …

Filed Under: Integrity, Questions, Teachers, Uncategorized Tagged With: interview, projects, Timothy Jacobs, Writing

Because I Myself Was Still Eating Sugar

September 27, 2013 by Sara Nolan

Integrity among monkeys

A mother brought her young son to Mahatma Gandhi.  Please, Gandhiji, she begged.  My son eats so much sugar.  I cannot get him to stop.  Please, tell my son to stop eating sugar.  Gandhi nodded.  The truly wise ones usually take a substantial pause before responding to go within for a reality check.  Then he said: OK, come back in a month.  And that was a solution? Because you have to listen to what you’re told when you ask Gandhi for advice, or so I imagine—it’s not like asking a question on a forum on Yahoo groups—the mother left with her son, a bit baffled. One month later she dragged him back in.  There was powdered sugar on the boy’s chin, frosting on the sleeve of his shirt, and chocolate stain near his belly button.  Clearly her techniques were ineffective—the boy was wearing his rebuff as a military decoration.  She stood the boy in front of Gandhi’s chair.  Gandhiji, she said, desperately.  I brought my son back, just like you told me to.  Please tell him to stop eating so much sugar.  Continue Reading …

Filed Under: Integrity, Practice, State of Mind, Teachers, Wisdom Tagged With: advice, gandhi, hypocrisy, integrity, practice, teachers

6 Life Lessons You Can Learn From Your Smartphone

September 20, 2013 by Sara Nolan

Admit it: you think your smartphone is awesome.  Maybe you’re even a little intimidated by it, or have a small crush on it--two ways we often feel about our best teachers.  You may feel a sense of deflation when obliged to shut it off or stow it away.  Continue Reading …

Filed Under: State of Mind, Teachers, Writing Tips Tagged With: body, connection, mind, recharge, smartphone, teacher

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