ESP Biography



JULIAN HALBERTSMA-BLACK, ESP Teacher



Major: Physics

College/Employer: UMass Boston

Year of Graduation: Not available.

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Past Classes

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X4640: Machiavellian Trolling in Spark! 2011 (Mar. 12, 2011)
TROLLING IS A ART FORM. HAS ANYONE REALLY BEEN FAR EVEN AS DECIDED TO USE EVEN GO WANT TO DO LOOK MORE LIKE? EVER WONDER HOW BOXXY ACQUIRED SUCH CRITICAL MASS? GRAMMAR NAZIS, HOW DO THEY WORK? ALL OF THIS (AND MORE!) WILL BE COVERED IN OUR TROLLING EXPOSE! MAY CAUSE RAGE. ESPECIALLY AFTER YOU READ THE FIRST LETTER OF EACH SENTENCE.


W4105: Chocolatology in Splash! 2010 (Nov. 20 - 21, 2010)
While the goal of the class is to gorge ourselves on chocolate, we're also going to teach you the fine art behind making it to justify all the materials we'll be purchasing. You'll leave with a newly acquired tolerance to curiously flavored dark chocolate and knowing way too much about ganache.


H3524: How to Question Everything and Argue with Everybody in HSSP Summer 2010 (Jul. 11, 2010 - Jul. 11, 2011)
In this course, we will teach you how to think logically, spot mistakes, formulate opinions and change those opinions in the event of new information. This should allow you to rationally carry on (and win) a debate or argument about any issue while avoiding common fallacies. Light reading and research will be assigned as homework — nothing that should take more than 30 minutes a week!


X3164: How Not To Be Awkward in Spark! 2010 (Mar. 13, 2010)
In this class, we’ll play out awkward scenarios and come up with solutions to get out of them. Things that will be discussed: what to do with your hands while talking, how to take a compliment, conversation topics to avoid…and so on.


X3165: Concealing a Lack of In-Depth Understanding Through The Use of Verbose, Obfuscating, Vapid and/or Redundant Language in Spark! 2010 (Mar. 13, 2010)
Learn how to stretch out writing assignments…eloquently!


M3167: How To Write Proofs in Spark! 2010 (Mar. 13, 2010)
To truly understand math, one has to know how to write proofs. Surprisingly, few are taught how to do so in school. Using maximum ridiculosity, we'll go into detail regarding how to read and write them!


H3383: How to Question Everything and Argue with Everybody in HSSP Spring 2010 (Apr. 17, 2010)
In this course, we will teach you how to think logically, spot mistakes, formulate opinions and change those opinions in the event of new information. This should allow you to rationally carry on (and win) a debate or argument about any issue while avoiding common fallacies. Light reading and research will be assigned as homework -- nothing that should take more than 30 minutes a week!


X2586: Concealing a Lack of In-Depth Understanding Through The Use of Verbose, Obfuscating, Vapid and/or Redundant Language in Splash! 2009 (Nov. 21 - 22, 2009)
Learn how to stretch out writing assignments...eloquently!


X2587: How Not To Be Awkward in Splash! 2009 (Nov. 21 - 22, 2009)
In this class, we'll play out awkward scenarios and come up with solutions to get out of them. Things that will be discussed: what to do with your hands while talking, how to take a compliment, conversation topics to avoid...and so on.