u/justwannaedit

I would love to hear from other fellows how everyone's experience has been with the program so far! Is it what you expected? Any thoughts, complaints, takeaways? Are you ready for summer rising?

I am currently tutoring a brilliant young man who is about to enter the 8th grade. He is on summer break right now, but his dad is paying me to give him some math lessons.

We just had 3 great sessions where we did a crash course on algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and a very brief intro to calculus. They were very productive sessions, but I have realized that I can really sense that this kid mainly just wants to have fun and satisfy his curiosity. With it being summer and the fact that he isn't in a structured math class right now, I think he'd get the most educational benefit out of these sessions if I actually lean into the fun for a while.

I would love to be able to get hands on with him and simply try to solve or do something together- like a fun math project, or even just a fun problem we could try to solve. Or some kind of math game we could play together. I have seen some full class projects but I think the options are way wider here. I know he is interested in physics, too.

I just want to tap into that urge he has to have fun, be challenged, and satisfy his mathematical curiosity. He doesn't want to grind a laundry list of every algebra skill under the sun. (Don't worry, I will focus on practical, basic skills too, but I think both aspects are important to the approach.)

Any tips or suggestions for what we could do together would be awesome!! Thank you!!

I am leaving my job at Paramount to become a math teacher at a New York City Public School. I could not be more excited and happy about it, but it's also wildly surreal and sentimental.

I am wrapping up my last few avid bins as we speak. It's been tough forcing myself to continue caring up until this point.

I don't plan to stop making films. I don't feel like I am losing a part of myself at all. On the contrary, I feel like I am simply discovering new parts of myself. This just feels like the next chapter and I am so excited to embark on it. I absolutely LOVE teaching so much, and if I can be pompous for a moment, my god am I good at it. Editing has been way more than a job, it's been an identity, and though that identity is morphing, I only feel like I'm growing.

I want to thank you all so much from the bottom of my heart for your support and help over the years. I got my very first NYC job thanks to this subreddit, when someone recommended me for a position.

The last 8 years at Paramount were wonderful, beautiful, and also insanely rough with the anxiety it turned into around being fired, or the soul crushing nature of watching it deteriorate into right wing media.

But I'm FREE now. Well, free from this one thing...now whole new worlds of stress and hell are about to open up for me. And you know what? I can't wait, bring it on! ​​