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Last week was a three-hanky special. The Girl had two graduations: one from her gymnastics class, and one from her...
Career Coach: Never Getting the Offer
I am a 55-year-old woman with a Ph.D. in economic history, 6 books and quite a few scholarly articles on...
Ask the Administrator: Picking Winners
A new correspondent writes: With all this talk about green jobs and the more than usual uncertainty about the shape...
Come Together, Right Now
I know why I know so little, but why is it so difficult for you scientists to know things definitively...
Math Geek Mom: It's Summer!!
You may have heard the comment that the “three best things about teaching are June, July and August”. Those of...
The other classes on campus
The series title "Town & Country" put me in mind of something I hadn't thought about for years. When I...
Motherhood After Tenure: other mothers
Although I became a mother late in life, two girls have been teaching me about parenting for the past several...
Reality Show?
Several commenters have recently suggested a Dean Dad reality show. It's not gonna happen – the pseudonym would be pretty...