Ms. Calderon
1) How do you feel working in a all girl school?
I found that in a co-ed school, the boys were more outspoken for the most part if you asked a question you would have boys more willing to answer than girls just because I feel the girls were more sheepish or they just didn't want to be wrong but the boys didn't seem to care as much and here it's obviously all girls so you just get girls more outspoken.
2) What is your greatest achievement? Why?
So when I first went to college I was majoring in physics first and I was just playing music on the side. Then I decided I wanted to study music because I really really loved it and to do that in my college you had to either switch to classical or jazz neither of which I really listen to in my life. So I was like classical seems interesting so I switch to classical guitars I had to get a new type of guitar and I had to learn how to play with my hand and at the end I ended up doing a senior recital which counted as my thesis and it was like an hour-long with all the music I had learned and I think it was a pretty achievement going from not knowing anything about classical guitar.. so I'm really proud of that, performing a recital where I was playing some of the really big names
3) What would we find if we opened your fridge?
You would find a lot of open packs of veggies and things in tin foil and lots of yogurt yeah. Pretty standard stuff probably veggie burgers but I'm not vegetarian my boyfriend is.
Have you ever had any awkward moments teaching?
It's probably when you make an answer key and make copies of said answer key and some of the things are wrong.
4) If you could give your younger self advice what would it be?
Don't take out loans really. I went to school my whole life and college too and for grad school I was like I'm going to go to a private school because I earned it and everybody was always telling me that you're going to waste your time at a CUNY. They made me feel really bad like in high school when we got our acceptances and my friends were like you should be going to a private and it sat with me all through college. So then I was like I'm going to apply to Ivy Leagues and if I get in I'm going and then I got into Columbia and it was like $50,000 a year but I had some scholarship thank God but it still came out expensive it should be a lot for a teaching degree. It was probably not the brightest idea in the world. I mean I'm okay but I could have been using that money for something better.
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