MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: How To

  • Game on (part two)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, November 1, 2015 Having registered for Harvard Computer Science 50, an online course famous for changing people’s lives, I left off downloading Scratch, an MIT-generated program designed to teach children fundamental computer programming. The first homework assignment takes me eight hours. I am supposed to finish the nine-week course by December 19. I…

  • Game on (part one)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 18, 2015 There’s no happy ending to this story, just to let you know up front. Because in a happy ending version, I am wearing a CS50 tee shirt, my brain is slightly more encephalized (bigger) and I have successfully reinvented and rerouted myself into mini-career number six or seven or whatever…

  • Here’s what you do

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, September 6, 2015 Starting with my father, I have always had people around me who knew exactly what to do in any given situation. Without a split second’s worth of hesitation, he would go about fixing or fabricating or directing anything. These processes for him were self-evident and without alternative. If you…

  • Advanced problem solving

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, May 3, 2015 On a recent drive home from Carbondale, I find myself thinking about Mr. Feeny, the principal of John Muir Elementary School in 1969. He is standing on the lunchroom stage before a group of us, 10 or so sixth-graders chosen to participate in a problem-solving class billed as “Advanced…

  • H2-OMG

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, April 19, 2015 We all have our own personal histories with water, do we not, in most cases beginning with the water that came straight from the source — mothers’ milk. Which is nearly 90 percent water.Right from the start, therefore, youguzzled your water like a pro, which would come in especially…

  • Gum chain

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 1, 2015 If you Google “guy who lived in the Alaskan wilderness for 30 years,” Dick Proenneke’s name and website will pop up and you’ll go, “That’s him!” And then you’ll see the name of the video and you’ll go check it out again from the library and you’ll watch it…