Welcome (back) to my blog!

 Hello everybody! There are most likely many new viewers here (unless I convince friends from the original iteration of my blog circa 2022 to come check out what I've changed), but this blog is currently changing gears a bit. It's original title was "Blogging the Journey from Student to Teacher" and to my delight, I am now a fully grown teacher upon returning!! So, if you're new and you are taking Currins 547 in Spring 2026, everything above this post will be my work for this semester; scroll below this post only if you dare (which upon my posting of this, I have not yet).

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