Graduate Student Instructors
TagCongrats on Your Acceptance!
So you’ve received your acceptance letter, and you’re beaming. I know I was. I put it on the refrigerator and called my mom. I was ecs..
The Importance of Student Evaluations
It’s that time of year again. I keep seeing reminders for submitting my Student Evaluations for the classes that I am taking. With eve..
Teaching as Learning, Classroom as Community
I recently spoke to Ames Hawkin’s Theory and Praxis class about my experience being a Graduate Student Instructor and the transition f..
Nonfiction MFA Student Spotlight: Patrick Thornton
This is the last installment of the Nonfiction MFA Student Spotlight. Le sigh. This week, I interview Patrick Thornton, a first-year M..
Hall Chat: MFA Student Spotlight: Maddison Hamil
Maddison Hamil is a first-year MFA candidate in the Nonfiction program at Columbia. I have had the opportunity to work with Maddison c..
Hall Chat: Congrats on Your Acceptance! – Part I
This is the view from the building that I work in. That blue building there, just past the El tracks could be your new home. Welcome t..
Hall Chat: First Day Jitters
The Spring Semester is here. This means that first-year Graduate Student Instructors are off to their first day as teachers of Writing..
So I get to teach. Then What?
As a candidate in the Creative Writing-Nonfiction program, I was offered the chance to take a Theory and Praxis course that prepared m..