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Academics will appreciate this post: http://candleinsunshine.com/musings/smart-kids-eventually-grow-up/
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Wine I can’t really drink red wine any more (too many brands give me migraines) so I have embraced my future as a wimpy drinker, focusing on sweet cocktails and white wine. Riesling is my favorite white, and I was really happy to find out that Pacific Rim Riesling (I tried the dry variety) is
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Saveedra says: “Interesting that you put forward the money paid by students as a reason for teaching to be taken seriously. A corollary, I suppose, is that where tuition fees are very low (my own shade of godforsakia) efforts should be accordingly reduced.” I guess my previous teaching post does sound like that, doesn’t it?
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Saw this on Twitter; I highly doubt it’s actually Freud’s quote (see a likely true source), but it got a life of its own and is a good bit of wisdom (definitely for women and minorities in academia). Also, being paired up with Freud’s pic helps.
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I have to rant about teaching a bit (again). I’m doing course assignments this year and a relatively junior faculty member just tells me that he doesn’t want to be in rotation to teach a certain required undergraduate course any more. He just doesn’t want to! Why? Well, he taught it three times and his
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Hi everyone and sorry, for I have been a delinquent academic blogger. I spend too much time farting around on Twitter (not the academic one, the flash-fiction one) and it’s been great fun. It does sink up quite a bit of time, though. Considering that my love for the job is below lifetime average, it’s
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So, today I received N (N=125^(1/3)) detailed written reviews of my competitive grant renewal (mail-in review). N-1 are positive, from completely glowing to enthusiastic but with some specific requests for clarifications. The Nth is negative, as in — there is nothing new here and the proposal is just awfully written and diffuse and should have
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Middle Boy asked something along the lines of whether I was sorry I’d never had a daughter. To be completely honest, I’m not sorry at all; in fact, I’m relieved. I don’t think I would have been a good mom to a daughter; I’m afraid I would’ve messed her up with a combination of my
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I’ve been thinking about student evaluations. Actually, I’ve been meaning to write about my thoughts on student evaluations after a colleague in a meeting had crapped all over the concept and then proceeded to lay it on thick over all the people who receive high numbers, accusing them of dumbing down their courses. Student evaluations
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As someone working w/ Amazon marketing, I can confirm that it is HIGHLY important to review your favorite authors' books. HIGHLY. Ideally a book should have minimum 15 reviews & at least a 3.5 star rating for certain algorithms to kick in. #publishing — Theresa DeLucci (@tdelucci) April 5, 2018 Dear bloggy friends, if you
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