What should I do if a teacher doesn't let me leave to use the bathroom?
I often refuse permission to go to the toilet, if I suspect that the student is just bored/ trying to get out of work.Or if the student has a history of asking to go every single time I have their class.That being said, if a student asked to go to the toilet and I said no, and then they went anyway and came back quickly, I’m not going to make a big deal out of it. I figure, if they’re really desperate, they’ll go. If they’re not, they can wait. Saying no is just my way of weeding out those students who are faking it.Side note, one of my students just offered to go in the garbage bin. When he picked up the bin, I said he could go - maybe you’d like to try this?
How can I stop feeling desperate for someone to love me?
This is going to sound counter-intuitive, but quit thinking about yourself at all. Just stop. Where you are right now is in a negative repeating loop, and the only way out is to stop thinking about what you can get; what you need; what you want. Unfortunately the more you engage in this type of thinking and behavior, the more desperate you seem, and that is almost always guaranteed to make you even less attractive. For some strange reason, people want people who don’t need them.So instead, get up, go out and figure out what you can give. Volunteer. Do assistant teaching or act as a teacher’s aide. Go clean up a park or someplace that needs it. Find an elderly neighbor or someone with a disability who could use help. Crochet, knit or sew things for those in the hospital. Cook and take meals to a family having a hard time making ends meet. In other words, get outside yourself. Doing so will help you in three ways:a) You’ll begin to appreciate that you’re in a much better place than you thought;b) You might learn a lot more about the world than you knew was possible; andc) As you quit thinking about how unworthy you feel and actually become a positive, worthy and giving person, it’s much more likely you’ll attract a person of similar mind to you.
Are professors intimidated by intelligent students, and why or why not?
I would like to chip in here, as I was kinda on both sides of this before moving on beyond academia.Often, intelligent students think they’re more intelligent than they really are. So instead of trying to be a smartass, an intelligent student will adjust the questions - I went from completely stupid questions to a level of confidence in taking information out of professors. The rest you can look up online or learn in MOOCs. That way, intelligent students don’t intimidate teachers because it reduces the capability of a clean, meritocratic knowledge exchange.Often, the intmidation felt by professors comes not from the content, but from the emotional content of the questions. Most of us are nerds, and we’re bad with people skills. So when I felt intimidated by intelligent students, I was just asking follow up questions and humbled myself in knowing, that there’s always more to learn.This relationship of an intimidated master with a powerful student is, I think, the crux of the new Star Wars trilogy. It embodies the very essence of progress - as one realizes that nothing but change is a constant in life.Also, this world does not understand the responsibility of professors. If you want to pay someone 50 mln $ a year for doing something, make it teaching Quantum Field Theory instead of football, please. On a sidenote, ofc.To put the above into perspective, let me present James Watson – Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia , who discovered the structural pattern of DNA with Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins. The professor who can get intimidated by a student is the one, who stops feeding his scientific obsession. As you will see from the page above, even though the Nobel-worthy discovery was made in 1953, when he was 25 years old, he did not stop. One could say, that he was an exemplary “intelligent student”, and at that time, he would indeed be hard to counter by any professor.He changed the world over the course of the next 50 years, and you can see him here -> How we discovered DNAI doubt a professor can get intimidated when being on the cutting edge of research.And that’s how progress works - professionals won’t get intimidated by intelligent students, they’ll get inspired and point you in your own way, giving you a nudge. This is what’s missing from the world we live in at large - the real master-student relationship.
Have you ever sewed up a hole in an article of clothing?
Lol yes
How can I keep my pointe shoes on my heels?
Criss Cross in the front is not for the heel but for rolling over your box. Please don't do the loops as is in tember's illustration as you could end up with achilles problems. You can try heel grippers. Gaynor Minden sells them plus some other companies. http://www.allaboutdance.com/dance-cloth... http://www.pointeshoecorner.com/p-1431-b... Also try hair spray on the back of your shoes first. If none of that works you can customize your shoe and sew a little tuck (small dart like) at the heel to tighten the shoe. I will give you a link to a video and you can see what Megan Fairchild (via Wendy Whelan) did to her Freed shoes. Although that was more for looks, it was also for a tighter heel fit. (at around 3:00 into the clip.) While excess material ideally should be custom cut to your foot, you can sew them for a more custom fit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkNb_HQjs... You can also talk to Grisko about getting a custom fit shoe with an adjustment in the heel. *EDIT: I assume that you have the elastic at the back of your heel. However, I do recall you have high arches and wonder if you just criss crossed your elastics in the front to help keep you from rolling over your box. Can I correctly assume if you have the elastics criss crossed in front you also have elastics on your heel as well? While that wont stop your heel from coming out of your shoe if your heel is narrow, it is a given it is needed even for an average heel to help keep it in place, **Rosin will work too, but only until your feet get sweaty. *For Additional-I guess I got you mixed up with someone else as you are one of the more serious dancers on this site. Sorry. If it is the shoe then maybe that heel is just too wide for your foot. You can try some of the remedies that I and others have recommended. Some dancers cut their tight's heel or put the back of their convertible tights over the outside heel of the shoe with the toe covering the inside like you normally would wear it to help hold them on. I forgot to mention that one. But maybe you should look for a better fit in the heel next time. Even if the rest of the shoe is great. If they don't stay on, how great can they really be?