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Bleurgh, indeed. I worked all weekend and am understandably exhausted now that the new week has started. This is the part of the semester when I get really angry over all the things I have to do, and I am doubly pissed because I swear there is more service now, in the middle of the
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Sorry folks, I’ve been working nonstop through the weekend. *insert weeping-face emoji* Here is some levity.
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A friend of the blog has a thought-provoking long essay on the challenges of teaching students who lack the necessary math skills, but want to get a degree in a math-heavy major. Teaching Physics to the Mathless
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Today was nuts. Many meetings for service and mentoring, family obligations, people just generally needing stuff… Hubs and I had our wills done; today was the ceremonious signing in front of a witness. (For someone whose job has nothing to do with law, I sure know a lot of lawyers. Met a bunch (a big
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I unofficially measure how busy and pulled in every direction I am by the daily number of almosts. Here is an example: I get an email from a student, decide what I will write back, maybe even draft it, then get pulled away by another email, or one of my kids needing something, or having
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Sometimes I feel like I grownup. Usually when I achieve something on behalf of my kids or my students. Other times, I feel like such an infant. This involves being in a position of some authority — chair of a committee, for example. I feel like I am a kid wearing Dad’s shoes. Like someone
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Some time in your mid 40s you stop saying I took a walk and start saying I took MY walk. pic.twitter.com/LDMtOTDUSu — 🇺🇦 Dean Bakopoulos 🇺🇦 (@DeanBakopoulos) November 9, 2020 To be fair, Angel was the right boyfriend for Buffy coming into her power. Spike was the right man to be with as she became
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From a review of my proposal submitted to a federal funding agency: “This proposal envisages using [name of approach], which (to my surprise) has up to now not been used for [specific systems] and which I consider very promising. So this goal on its own is highly original and valuable.” From the introduction to a
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All right! The election insanity is over. I am personally thrilled by the outcome, and I assume the same holds for much of the blog’s readership. However, this place has never been about politics and I am not a sophisticated political thinker anyway, so let me just say I hope we can all exhale now,
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https://twitter.com/CardinalPhink/status/1324632262470705154?s=20 Who would have thought 2 men in their 70s could maintain an election for this long? — Angie Moxham (@AngieMoxham) November 6, 2020 https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/1324364539471794178?s=20 pic.twitter.com/KrAys7G0B2 — Erika Nolte, PhD (@ErikaDNolte) November 5, 2020 Did I make this whole thing for the last line? Yeah pic.twitter.com/bNXiZWk53B — Alisha Rai (@AlishaRai) November 6, 2020 https://twitter.com/TheSamhita/status/1324779741170335744?s=20 https://twitter.com/alex_abads/status/1324820257685602304?s=20
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