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This weekend I finally gave myself a permission to not work, as I had worked nearly non-stop through last weekend because of a deadline and ended up quite exhausted. Last weekend, Middle Boy had his best friend over. We love the little boy and his family, and I know the mom pretty well. She is very…
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The Internet has been getting on my nerves lately. There are several blogs that I often read but from which I will have to give a break, perhaps indefinitely. On an intellectual level, kudos to the writers; I wish them well, and I hope for their continued success. Viscerally, I mostly just want to punch them…
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I have issues with some of the advanced teaching strategies as I see them implemented in my department. (Flipped classroom, I am looking at you, and all other eggcellent paradigms.) My main complaint is that the responsibility to sit down and understand the material and work until proficiency is achieved is being taken away from…
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The spring semester is over! After months of heavy teaching and service, with a large helping of grant writing, I am now happily heading into 3.5 months of summer, which means a) frantically writing up and sending off several papers for publication, which had been sitting on my desk for longer than I care to…
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I really hate this type of statement, which is ubiquitous in the blogosphere: “…I made a decision that is right for me…” “You made a choice that is right for you and your family…” “Make an informed choice to do what’s best for you.” Of course people do stuff that is best for them. Who else…
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There is work to do tonight, but I can’t make myself do it. Preparing a whole new midterm for one student who was ill, writing a letter of nomination for a student for an award, getting an abstract/bio ready for an upcoming talk. This has been a really difficult semester and I am really cranky. I…
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Yesterday I found out that one of my NSF proposals got declined. I was disappointed, as I think this was probably the best proposal I have ever written. I read the comments and felt even more down. The comments indicated that it was poorly placed panel-wise. It received 3 “goods”, and the comments were pro forma. First,…
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I have been extremely busy, hence the scarcity of posts. I have been wanting to post on a number of interesting topics, but the time just isn’t there… And then I forget or the impetus to write diminishes for whatever reason (mostly due to sleepiness), and then there are more pressing things to tend to…
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