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When you apply for faculty jobs, a standard set of required documents is: a) Cover letter b) CV [“Curriculum vitae” or simply “Vita”; please, I beg you, do not use “Vitae” as the title or refer to your CV as Vitae; vitae in curriculum vitae is the genitive case of the noun vita (life) and
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I had a lengthy post ready to go and the web went down. Transferring a text file onto an iPhone turned out to be sisyphean task, as iTunes on the desktop went stupid in the absence of a web connection, so I can’t transfer the text to the phone to post (my new phone is
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This holiday, like most holidays, was not relaxing at all. I spent it trying to balance tending to the kids, doing chores, cooking, and doing some work. The work load was “light”: reviewing papers and proposals (did some, declined some after having initially accepted, still not done); creating and posting a final project assignment for my
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(This post was drafted back in July, but never published; I think I just forgot about it. It’s an amalgam of several emails and stories I heard IRL.) Working with graduate students comes with seemingly innumerable challenges. Sometimes I think it’s a continuum; a conundrum continuum, if you will. Here are some scenarios. A professor starts working with a graduate student and
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I got very wordy in my responses to a couple of comments to this recent post, so if you can’t get enough on dealing with difficult students, here are the links: Comment and response Comment and response There’s also an interesting discussion on Google+ that I discovered by looking at my stats, which opened up a whole bunch of related and semi-related discussions,
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Happy Thanksgiving to US readers and Thursday Nov 24th to everyone else! I came across this lovely webcomic, Scandinavia and the World (link is to the first comic in there). Here’s a recent one:
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Usually, when a graduate student is about to defend their dissertation, I feel very proud of them and a little sad to see them leave. But, occasionally, I am vastly more relieved than sad, mostly because I no longer have to patiently endure the friction, the head-butting, and the jabs (whether intentional or not; I’d
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It was DH’s birthday today (happy birthday, DH!), so we took off work early, had a late lunch together at a nice restaurant, and went to see Dr. Strange. I admire the Cumberbatch cheekbones as much as any straight woman, but the movie itself was not much more than cute and entertaining, which is a shame —
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Another busy day. I gotz nothing for ya. Here is one of my favorite comedies of all times, “So I Married an Axe Murderer,” which is incidentally also the only movie with Mike Myers that I don’t hate (Shrek doesn’t count). Also a big fan of “Space Balls” “Galaxy Quest” “Hot Fuzz” “Shaun of
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Classy! Not classy — gassy! I saw this early today at Pharyngula, and it cheered me up to no end! *Thanks for mareserenitatis for the classy and gassy quip!
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