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A prospective grad student (PGS) reader asked me to post this query, which is timely for many applicants. I will also share some of the brief comments I responded with, but I’d like to invite the academic blogosphere to chime in with their wisdom. When you comment, please state what field you’re in (broad is
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I am a big holiday hater, so…yeah. Ready to go back to work. Why I am a holiday hater? Not sure. I have a few hypotheses, though. It doesn’t help that holidays are supposed to be scheduled happy time. We all know how much I love scheduled anything. Kids, being kids, love the holidays (*wipes
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Over the years, as I gained more experience as advisor, I realized that I could successfully advise a much wider range of students than I had initially thought. We faculty start out more-or-less thinking all graduate students are like us, motivated to the same extent and by the same things. Experience quickly disabuses us of
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Each year, I get a flurry of requests to write recommendation letters for undergrads applying to grad school. Application deadlines are around the corner, with most being sometime in December. Occasionally, there will be students who are really nervous about it. There is one kid who asked me to write a letter three months ago,
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This was a busy weekend, with student paperwork emergencies, grading the midterm, helping out kids with some schoolwork, and also DH’s birthday, for which I did some extra special cooking (no guests, just us, but it’s nice to mark the occasion). I’m feeling a bit 😩😩😩😩😩 and there’s still grading to do, so, without further
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I was telling my kids how I have finally scheduled some time to go into the lab & use the spectrometer after Thanksgiving. 9 yo: what are you going to spectraumatize? — Dr. Debbie Gale Mitchell (@heydebigale) November 21, 2020 I only write the captions for a small portion of @swear_trek gifs but when I
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Today, I gave a midterm to my undergraduate class; I proctored it via a videoconferencing tool. Near the end, a student was red in the face and looked visibly upset. He conveyed that he was frustrated because he’d studied so hard and this was even harder than the previous exams. I’ve had this kid in
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Today was an insanely busy day. Lots of Zoom meetings, from 9 to 7:30 (yep, after hours because of a personnel issue emergency). My butt and my chair are more intimate than any two living things have every been. I got three story rejections today (different stories), and one re-rejection of a story that had
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https://twitter.com/janineannett/status/1328793205031268352?s=20 https://twitter.com/underthenettle/status/1328670184924700674?s=20 Simply amazing they couldn't figure it out. pic.twitter.com/MLuf7DIxOo — Baker (@TheRyanBaker) November 17, 2020 https://twitter.com/xx_Symmetry/status/1328758579084537863?s=20 This is literally the best thing I’ve ever read #kidlit Donald and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Election – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://t.co/Fvip6F8q4p — Robin 🌈🦈 (@sf_robin) November 17, 2020 pic.twitter.com/CX6CYUwtz6 — Lindz McLeod (@lindzmcleod) November
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Those of you who’ve been following this blog awhile are familiar with the ups and downs of my attitude toward work, coupled with midlife-crisis musings. The thing is, when I look at my posts from even two or three years ago, I can’t believe how invested I was in my work. And, on good days,
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