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Fluids not via tummy might be a good plan vw. If it makes the recovery quicker it's worth it. Although I certainly understand why you wouldn't be up to dragging yourself to the hospital.

Sounds encouraging MG. Continuing the ~ma.

I need to send a followup email to the people I interviewed with on Wednesday. How does this sound?

"I wanted to write and thank you for taking the time to interview me on Wednesday about the math position. Also, I realized that I'd been a little unclear about the student teaching requirements of the university, so I checked on that and wanted to let you know. According to the Field Placement Office, [quote from the email which says I wouldn't need a teacher in the classroom with me but would need to be assigned a supervising practitioner who could mentor me].

"If you have any further questions, please let me know or contact the Field Placement Office at [blah]. Thank you again for meeting with me."

Did I tell you all about the nice cheerful pink chalk and the slightly less joyful green chalk?

Not while I was here. Do it!

Oh, uh, that was pretty much it. He was demonstrating how in certain groups the cosets can form subgroups -- so he was filling in a six-by-six table to show that the four three-by-three squares were actually two copies of two blocks, so he was choosing colored chalk to demonstrate this (so that, he said, if you took off your glasses and squinted, you'd only see the subgroups), and came up with... "nice cheerful pink chalk" and "slightly less joyful green chalk."

Cool. Almost makes me want to do my algebra homework. But not enough to make me actually do it.

Actually, Emily, is there a copy of your class's syllabus online you could link me to? I have a feeling that our algebra class isn't covering as much as it should in the semester, and I was wondering how it compared to others.

BTW, that email looks fine.

Here's the class page, with a link to the (PDF) syllabus (I just mention it because I get irritated when I realize I'm going to have to twiddle my thumbs while my computer loads an unexpectedly PDF page). Also, thanks. Guess I'll go ahead and send it -- the whole applying-interviewing process makes me so uncomfortable, but there you have it.

Emily, Good note! I would cut the "Also" at the beginning of the second sentence and make it present tense "I realize that I'd been unclear so I...." Sounds a bit stronger.

Emily, you might want to add something in the "I was really impressed with the school and your curriculum" vein. More warm fuzzies, anyway.

Yeah, as I suspected. You guys started a week earlier than us, but are currently more than a month ahead of us - we're just looking at factor groups, and will certainly not be getting to rings this semester. How annoying. Guess that "Ivy League" stamp doesn't guarantee extra learning, surprise surprise.

Guess that "Ivy League" stamp doesn't guarantee extra learning, surprise surprise.

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