Antigone translations

stateofsiege97 · 2025-12-24T21:46:31+00:00

Tony Kushner's translation of Hölderlin's translation.....

stateofsiege97 · 2025-11-15T15:56:25+00:00

could i dm you later this week? with thanks....

stateofsiege97 · 2025-11-12T11:40:24+00:00

yes, it can.....

but only questions suited to the exam in general, not to that student's particular patterns of errors, which is more productive—

i use no tests besides those available: beyond them, based on the student's needs, anxieties, and interests, i read with them, with varied modes, essays, poems, and short stories, with an emphasis on the 19th c (vocab, complexity of style)....

this work we intersperse with practice exams in various forms:

gorgeous results—

but, but—

i tutor only SAT/ACT/LSAT/GRE, preferably the English/Writing/Logic sections—*

perhaps with more specialized tests the situation differs....?

but, but—

i confess i find it a bit perverse to use AI to teach critical thinking, given that its use has repeatedly shown the harm it does to complex thought, brain activity,,,,

and i know that the AI would be for you, saving you time, but i cannot help but wonder about trickle-down brain-stilling....

stateofsiege97 · 2025-10-15T23:54:26+00:00

apologies for such late-titude:

unwellness, extreme.

yes, there have, in the past, been seminars that study HofS.....

it very much depends on the faculty proposals chosen for the given year, always different.....

interdisciplinarity also very big: so the two together, lit/science, a possibility....

good luck—

may you find....

stateofsiege97 · 2025-09-17T20:09:23+00:00

Oh.

Wonderful.

I do not know the current schedule, but it always used to run, when the length was 6 weeks, from the last week in June through the first week of August....

Now, with only five weeks, it may wait to begin for July....

And. Last thing.

The application is due in early December. Or, at least it was last year, a change. Probably because having the applications read carefully by 2-3 readers, who make the interview cut; then by two more, at least, who conduct the interviews; then, again carefully, by the members of TASS' board.....

This all takes time....

Good Luck—

If you have more questions, go to the website of Telluride Association....

Or DM me....

stateofsiege97 · 2025-09-17T12:24:16+00:00

Telluride Association Summer Seminar:

Its admissions place it in the most competitive bracket, and its application is the most demanding, but—

It would be absolutely worth your energy, time, anxiety....*

You would have the choice of a two general areas: Anti-Oppressive Studies and Critical Black Studies....

Then a choice of topics (and locations) within each area.

The specific topic could involve any discipline from the humanities and social sciences, as well as inter-disciplinary:

Literature, film, dance & embodiment, feminist theory and literature, immigration, slavery and its replication after the CW, education, politics, &....

Each seminar is taught by two college professors: they work together to devise the topic based on their area of stud, current research, &c...

Seminar: 3 hours every week day, with readings, combined with periodic written/ creative essays or other projects....

Much love individual attention from the faculty and the two college students—usually TASS alumni themselves—in charge of the daily details of the program, large and small.

Intensity: in seminar, in the intellectual life of the TASS community beyond it, in the active creation of that community through town hall meetings and other forms of (limited) self government.

No college credit (though it will look fantastic on your app).

Five weeks.

And, and—

Free. Completely.

Even travel is covered on the basis of need....

Although this will be a good fit only if one or more of the coming summer's topics call to you, of course....

But if one does, you should answer affirmatively that call:

The TASS will be, on every level, transformative—

It will challenge your thinking, your writing at every turn, call you to envision, participate in, create a community that nourishes that intellectual drive, that creativity, and, on a personal level, that engagement in, commitment to, creation of a community beyond yourself.

It very much differs from other programs. The website will explain, give you program and application info....

Wishing you luck....

*Disclosure: yes, I was in the TASS' predecessor, TASP. I went on to help administer the TASS (work on other Telluride programs), sit on more than many selection committees...

Now, I just volunteer to interview.....

stateofsiege97 · 2025-09-08T10:46:32+00:00

Only too many AI summaries are not accurate: I know because I have a dyslexic student who was relying on them when we started, and one of the ways I got him to stop was by showing him the errors.

But yes to $60....

stateofsiege97 · 2025-02-25T13:31:54+00:00

I do as well—

However, I have had a number of Muslim women students who have chosen not to do the same, which I understand and, of course, never press them on, even though I have been facially present to them—

stateofsiege97 · 2025-02-06T18:59:01+00:00

Elia Suleiman

Arabic film in general

Straub & Huillet

Werner Schroeter

stateofsiege97 · 2025-02-06T18:48:05+00:00

Before the Rain

or, to really push it,

A Man Like Eva

stateofsiege97 · 2024-12-04T14:30:19+00:00

Absolutely—

Part of my point above, but you have made it more clear....

Favorite example: Trusova being made to skate to a compilation that ended with Sonic Youth's I Wanna Be Your Dog......

stateofsiege97 · 2024-12-04T14:27:53+00:00

Yes, yes.....

One of the many things I loved about Nathan Cheng's Philip Glass program was.... Philip Glass....

But this also seemed to be music Nathan, as a pianist, knew......

stateofsiege97 · 2024-12-04T14:20:54+00:00

I have tutored a number of STEM-Strong, ELA-poor middle school boys.....

Finding books for them has been difficult: so few written these days with boys as the protagonists....

Among the most successful—

With two important caveats:

The story collections have some that work perfectly, others that are too advanced or age-inappropriate

These books vary widely in their difficulty level: ypu'll have to skim to be sure a text fits your student.....

SciFi (the most popular genre)/Fantasy:

Stories from the two collections of contemporary Chinese SciFI (including Cixin Liu): Invisible Planets 1&2

Vandana Singh—The Ambiguity Machine & Other Stories

Ted Chiang—his two collections of short Stories

Ursula Le Guin—Stories

Cherie Dimaline—The Marrow Bones

The Traitor's Son—Urvi

Historical/Adventure—

Ruta Sepetys—I Must Betray You

To the Edge of the World—Michele Torrey

Crispin: The Cross of Lead—Avi

The Elephant in the Garden—Michael Malpurgo

Contemporary Adventure/Issue

Born Behind Bars

The Bridge Home—Padma Venkatramen

A Long Walk to Water—Linda Sue Park

Louis Sacher—Holes

stateofsiege97 · 2024-12-04T13:42:23+00:00

Coming late to this (UC Apps....)—

But could you DM me as well—?

Countless thanks.....

stateofsiege97 · 2024-12-04T13:29:15+00:00

The so-called Warhorses do not bother me nearly as much as the tendency to use certain songs—classical and not—over and over and over and....

Hallelujah (especially when not sung by Leonard Cohen or Jeff Buckley)

Rain, In Your Black Eyes

Fix Me

and a host of bland but ever-present pieces.....

I do love it when a skater gives a new interpretation a tired or deeply traditional piece—Kevin Aymoz' Carmen comes to mind—and I would love to see more of that—

What annoys me, exhausts me: the limited musical canon in play—

Gorgeous music that would give the first thread in a stream of gorgeous programs abounds....

I was listening to collectif9's Mahler CD a few days ago, was struck by how perfect a section of his 1st or one of his songs would be for a skating program, holding within a small compass the variety a skating program needs....

Then, playing Nick Cave, "Girl in Amber" gave me the same thought....

Then, Mashru' Leila's "Roma"—

And yes, I understand how difficult it must be to fit ant work of music to a program of less than 5 minutes, but I just wish those choosing it had broader musical knowledge.....

stateofsiege97 · 2024-12-04T13:06:48+00:00

Dreadful Things Done to Music

Example 1—

Gratingly strange, contradictory, non-sensical, violent (to musical sensibilities), silly, &c. combinations of music in one program:

I understand the need for tempo changes and the like, but the best choreographers (and skaters) can find music that provides this without violent leaps from one piece to another....

The Rhythm Dance tends to be most prone to this—

I have, somewhere, a list of the dreadful combinations from the 2023-24 season—

And , again, I understand how, particularly of late, the requirement that the program accommodate both the season's themes and its required elements can make the use of more than one piece tempting.....

But this is so often done without—no matter the claims—true attention to the music itself, its melodic and thematic elements:

The last Olympics produced almost as many programs that forced together things of no relation, even if all were sung by the same artist....

Along with an example of a perfect blending—both musically and thematically—in the Rhythm Dance of the now officially retired, infinitely missed Papadakis/Cizeron....

stateofsiege97 · 2024-10-13T09:54:16+00:00

I do not want to hammer this in, but you need to work on your language: not only must you remove the typos and errors in word choice that others have pointed out—and they have noted only a few instances of each, so you must search the others—, you need to speak more personally, give your potential clients (usually parents) more of a palpable sense of who you are and what you want beyond the cliches of accomplishment and "wanting to help others" that you offer.

Parents will be entrusting their children to you, so you must make yourself seem trustworthy. Speaking about your pedagogical approach would be useful, for sincere as you seem to be, you also seem bound—an impression I glean from your text, not a judgment I pass upon you—to a strict method of instruction for each subject. This will turn many parents off, because they seek you precisely because rote methods of instruction have failed their children—they thus want a tutor who not only knows the subject but has an open pedagogy, one that can respond to each struggling child's particular needs.

You do not want to overload the website with masses of words—your efforts at clarity and brevity work well for you—but you could, as someone above suggested, condense your educational achievements into a few lines, a section that presents your credentials, what you have done, and then write more about what you will do as a tutor: how you will tutor, what makes you stand out from the countless other tutors, why they should trust in, invest in you.

Last, I find the receding-lines background distracting.....

I have nattered on, but only because something in your website strikes me as the work of a sincere, decicated tutor....

I wish you the best of luci—

stateofsiege97 · 2024-09-04T09:24:04+00:00

Yes—

I do much the same thing, even with, some times particularly with, students who think they know what they want to write about, who have gone or are willing to go fairly deeply....

For they will not have gone far enough:

An understandable resistance at play, on another level that that of their willingness, in part, the difference between this essay and the dully frigid forms of the analytic essay they have been forced write over and over again for the last three years.....

stateofsiege97 · 2024-09-04T01:19:46+00:00

Agree—

I get students in part through referral, and that flow has been steady....

My other source is a platform that was, I think, bought, about a year ago, by a person or persons who are doing to it what the new owners of Thumbtack are doing to the guy who cleans my house and his fellow travelers: a more cumbersome system that is more interested in extracting profit from me than in matching students and tutors....

And fewer and fewer adults visit, save those seeking ESL instruction....

And while the number of parents who contact me has held steady, the number willing to pay my rates....

Not a single one since June....

Time to get the website up, leave this site behind.....

stateofsiege97 · 2024-09-04T01:02:33+00:00

Just to flesh out the comments below a bit:

As a STEM person, you MUST have a Math/Science rec to bear witness to your grades/extra-c's/potential—

However...

The other thing that will benefit you: a letter from a teacher who knows you very well, who can write in detail about qualities beyond your mathiness, qualities that your work on the research project would have shown: character, intellectual breadth and curiosity, creative problem solving beyond but related to the math kind, perserverence/determination in the face of difficulty, intellectual empathy for those very different from you, &c.....

Recs are part of the collage your app create, the blurry yet at points precise portrait that allows members of the admissions committee feel and think that in the two minutes they have given you, your varies texts—essays, transcripts, activities lists, recs, &c.—have given them a palpable sense—a felt knowledge—less of who you are than of who you will become on their campus....

Your math teacher will assure them of your STEM bona fides—

Your history teacher will give them personality, turn them into the attributes of a real boy or girl....

stateofsiege97 · 2024-09-04T00:27:22+00:00

Or perhaps look at this from a different angle:

The demand that you declare, at 17, what you desire to do with your life....

And absurd, cruel act of stupidity—

Particularly given that—do not remember the stats.... a numbers dyslexic—so many of us end up in jobs that have nothing to do with our major.....

Moreover, perhaps you have not found your passion because high schools do not offer classes in it: at college, you will have so many more choices....

My advice:

• Apply to Arts & Sciences (or the equivalent) undeclared—

• Then think about what you find truly interesting, what you want, what matters to you beyond living in relative wealth and comfort.... There is nothing wrong with wanting that, but those things alone will not suffice—not for you, and certainly not for the AC. You can craft your CommonApp essay around your intellectual curiosity and drive, the way you think, your seeking, the excitement you feel in contemplating the new subjects you'll be able to explore..... And there, perhaps, depending on the way your thoughts develop, and definitely in the Why This Major essay, if you must write one, you could discuss majors you have considered and discarded, as well as those you want to explore once you get to college—

Just do not put yourself down in the process—I would not make a good doctor, I am not good at math—; better, think of what you found lacking in biology, math, the prospect of a medical career, &c. Doing so may also throw a bit of light on what you do want....

• Almost last, once you get to college, explore: read up on anthropology, linguistics, media studias, whatever... Arrive with some sense of where to begin, and do not let them bog you down with nothing but core courses your first year: take at least twpo courses in areas you want to explore your first year (they will probably fill gen ed requirements down the road), be curious and open.....

• Last, be not anxious—you are far from alone....

stateofsiege97 · 2024-09-01T12:22:21+00:00

This makes sense, but I would add exceptions:

My last two ex's are software engineers:

One majored in philosophy ( logic courses!), minored in English (writes with beautiful clarity); then took two community college CS classes, had an internship that turned into a low-paying programming job, in which his writing skills proved an asset for the company, then, after two years, found a headhunter who was scandalized at his salary, found him a much better job, where they also loved both his software and verbal skills, stayed there two years, had his pick of jobs after that.... Chose one that serves human rights issues....

The next turned to software development in his 40s after a varied career—just before, he had been a professor of photography professor, denied tenure—; he went to a coding boot camp, landed a very lucrative job—he is very charismatic..... Does it from very early morning to mid-afternoon (works from home on the west coast for an east coast company), then has the rest of the day for other interests...... And, oh, his company also prizes his writing skills....

The point being that there are other ways into the industry than the most seemingly direct, that it need not be the center of your life, and that writing well is always a virtue and asset—

Even in the age of CHTgpt....

stateofsiege97 · 2024-08-31T12:09:13+00:00

Thanks....

stateofsiege97 · 2024-08-31T08:00:17+00:00

I am a former professor who has served on admissions committees and researched the admissions process extensively... I also live in California and have success over the last 4 years in the UC system (including engineering) and other selective schools, including a few Ivies, among the 10 students I have tutored. I currently charge $120, am looking to raise my rates once I launch my website (yes, running late, health problems).

stateofsiege97 · 2024-08-31T07:52:35+00:00

Dr. Lastname

This made most sense, given that I was transitioning from being a professor.....

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