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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-incredible-4k-video-of-the-sun-took-nasa-300-hours-to-make
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This topic has been popping in and out of my mind for months now, but I never seem to have the time to jot anything down before I forget again… So today is the day! Professors, do you go commencement ceremonies to hood your PhD graduates? I did it with my first PhD graduate. While…
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It’s that time of year again, when undergrads start enrolling in their spring semester classes. I am scheduled to teach a large undergrad course, let’s call it A, one that’s required for majors and offered every semester, and it’s nearly full to capacity. I looked at the roster and there are probably a couple of dozen students…
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There is a colleague, considerably senior to me, with whom I don’t interact much; we are in different fields and have offices on different floors. But I occasionally run into him on my way out of the parking garage, and when I do we always have a brief but pretty cool chat. This last one had to…
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Today has been a very drowsy day. I barely contained yawning in my class and I yawned through the meeting with my students, who found it puzzling and hilarious. Sadly, my tolerance for caffeine is really high. I think actual extra sleep might be in order. I leave you with some pictures of a newly (to me) discovered…
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This week, I have had a bad flare-up of the impostor syndrome, which got me thinking about how we view ourselves and how others view us, and if there is ever a way for the two pictures to coincide. Over my course of my faculty career, I was interviewed a few times for the college or…
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I just discovered another female musician with a great voice, Maia Sharp. Check out her brand new single, “Nothing but the radio on”. I prefer the video with the live version, but the studio recording is also nice. Enjoy!
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Superlative fatigue — a condition that emerges after writing too many letters of recommendation or award nomination within a short period. It stems from the inability of the human brain to use, in earnest, more than a limited number of superlatives per unit time without wanting to vomit and/or use more realistic adjectives. The condition…
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