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If you want me to do something for you and I say I will, I will ask you to give me a deadline. Once I have the deadline, I will do my best (and will usually succeed) to deliver what I promised by said deadline. BY SAID DEADLINE. This means not much before the deadline.
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Here are some things that came up over the past few weeks as I thought about the teaching performance of that junior colleague of mine. Here is a hodge-podge of things that I think work for me, or in general. I am assuming here a semester system, and a typical 3-credit course equivalent to 150 min
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I cannot wait for this semester to end; it’s mostly because a couple of major service obligations will end with it, so I will no longer have to deal with some very difficult people. There are people who, once they’ve grabbed onto some power, develop — or perhaps just give themselves the permission to manifest?
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I volunteer to help in Smurf’s Kindergarten classroom for about 45 min per week, on most weeks. Usually, I walk around and help the kids as they try to trace their letters or read their little books. Sometimes I read a more complicated text to a small group of 3-4 kids. Today one kid came up to me as
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I think my paper might be held prisoner, but I don’t know why or when its sentence will end. We have this result that’s pretty cute, but our first choice journal returned it without review as not hot enough. So I thought a bit about where to send it, and since it was written as a
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Over the past few months, I have made some notable mistakes in how I spend my time and energy. *** I participated in a funding-agency panel, led by a program manager who’s not funding me. At the same time, I had a bunch of proposals to mail-in review for a program manager at another agency, who is actually funding
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The (faux) field of credit dynamics studies the motion of intellectual attribution in scientific collaborations. The first and second laws of credit dynamics are: 1) A vast majority of readers mentally attribute each research paper to just one of the authors in the author list. 2) The attribution of a scientific paper always flows toward the most
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A colleague from industry is co-organizing a fairly major conference in his field. He invited me to give a talk in the session he’s in charge of. I said sure, mostly as a favor to him. But, it turns out that I am responsible for all the expenses, including registration, and it’s not a conference I would
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Grading and despairing… The following comes to mind, as I look at all the instances of the abomination that is the axis with two arrows:
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Yesterday, I looked up a former classmate of mine, B. We were in high school together; I haven’t really thought about her since we graduated. She is now a pediatrician back in my home country. When we were in high school, she was what we used to call (loosely translated) a “crammer.” A crammer would be someone
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