tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19425705.post5719156376497586182..comments2024-03-25T14:50:25.523-07:00Comments on Running from elevators: Add It UpBruckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08445755788968924719noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19425705.post-11925978220079101982011-05-15T16:34:53.159-07:002011-05-15T16:34:53.159-07:00Another great xkcd comic on sexism in academia:
ht...Another great xkcd comic on sexism in academia:<br /><a href="http://xkcd.com/896/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/896/</a>Bruckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08445755788968924719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19425705.post-21983816375008137002008-10-27T22:07:00.000-07:002008-10-27T22:07:00.000-07:00>>>Then again, there's also an elemen...>>>Then again, there's also an element to learning languages of accepting "sounding silly." I would hear students in Spanish class (and other foreign languages classes) start to speak with a good accent, then become self concious as they heard themselves.<<<<BR/><BR/>I remember having a few moments in Spanish class when I realized what I thought was a silly way of Bruckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08445755788968924719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19425705.post-78088137707815063612008-10-26T10:58:00.000-07:002008-10-26T10:58:00.000-07:00Learning Hebrew as a kid should make a big differe...Learning Hebrew as a kid should make a big difference (as I feel it has with me). What happens when you're twelve-ish is that you become less able to produce new vowels and consonants (e.g. if you never learned to trill your r's, you may not be able to after that) or you may struggle with new types of syntax or morphology. With English and Hebrew in your inventory, however, you're prepared for a Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859368648882079125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19425705.post-58725790938993190472008-10-26T09:25:00.000-07:002008-10-26T09:25:00.000-07:00>>>I decided not to take trig/calc as a s...>>>I decided not to take trig/calc as a senior in high school, which at the time I attributed to laziness.<<<<BR/><BR/>Funny, I chose a math major because of laziness: as I'm sure I've said to you, it seemed the one that would be easiest.<BR/><BR/>>>>Somewhere around 12, though, almost all people lose the ability to learn another language fluently, due to Bruckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08445755788968924719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19425705.post-61504074693322326962008-10-25T23:36:00.000-07:002008-10-25T23:36:00.000-07:00I decided not to take trig/calc as a senior in hig...I decided not to take trig/calc as a senior in high school, which at the time I attributed to laziness. My grades didn't count for college, I wasn't planning to have a math related major, and I'd hit a wall in Algebra 2 where it was no longer so easy to do some things. I literally got hysterical over a few homework assignments because I wasn't able to just whip out the answers. <BR/><BR/>Years Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859368648882079125noreply@blogger.com