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In the comments to last post, reader math gradstudent asked, “I would be very interested in reading a professional mathematician’s (a math professor’s, to be precise) version of this post!” No math profs have chimed in thus far, so this question is still open. Math profs among readers, please tell us your thoughts! I am
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During a decade or so in academia, I have seen many, many faculty applications. A typical broad search in my field will have several hundred candidates, of which there are probably 20-30 who are highly qualified. The rest are eliminated after a quick scan of the CV and don’t get much of a second look. We faculty usually
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Lots of ideas for posts, not enough time. I have been busy with figures for the book, and some were redrawn. Here are a couple that got a makeover: And a few oldies that I like but that didn’t make it into the book:
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This one was inspired by real-life events. Earlier this evening, DH and I finally converged at home, me after a post-daycare-pickup trip to the grocery store with the younger two, him after having brought back Eldest from an activity. We passed each other in the garage; he was carrying trash bags out, I was carrying the groceries in,
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I am fascinated by the digital visual arts. Here’s a nice video of how some of the color drawings we see online get made (comic artist Shouri draws a self-portrait for her banner). I don’t wear much makeup. I put on some eye shadow, mascara, and lipstick, and I am good to go. What I do is so minimal that it
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I give you three comic series that I loved as a kid. There was this comic collection that came out weekly, printed in black and white. Each issue featured several pages of each of several recurring comics. Not all stories were advanced every week. The collection came out on Tuesdays and I would buy it at a news stand
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Why your teaching assistant may seem robotic Words that make people’s skin crawl Why you can’t lose weight on a diet Professor or Hobo? Being an adult Modern Solo adventures Interview with Santa’s raindeer wrangler Criticism and ineffective feedback Deadpool
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An institution has tasks A-Z that need to be done. Tasks Q-Z are very important, but are considerably more laborious than other tasks and also have to be done 2x or 4x more frequently. The task-assignment system has each employee submit a small number of preferred tasks. Usually, an employee will be assigned one or two among their preferred tasks
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I am not a particularly neat person. I start my semester with a very clean desk, and then just let stuff accumulate. There are piles with HW assignments, scribbles that I made during office hours, random pages from drafts of manuscripts with marked-up edits on them, all interspersed with books that I pulled out to look
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