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ABC's and Ph.D.'s: Back to Elementary School
When my older daughter started elementary school, I asked about helping out occasionally in her classroom and I was politely...
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When the Boss is Awful
In response to yesterday's post, several commenters asked variations on "well, okay, but what if the dean is a jackass...
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Widow X Waits for You
It’s easy to feel an exhilaration verging on hysteria at the start of a big research project; you don’t even...
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Issues of scale
To attend a commencement last weekend, I had to travel overnight. Two related observations stick in my mind, although I...
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Speaking Like a Hedgehog, Hearing Like a Fox
If you haven't yet seen Tenured Radical's wonderful post on how to think like an administrator, check it out. Most...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: May Term
Last year at this time I was beginning to see the end of my sabbatical. My colleagues had wrapped up...
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Career Coach: Changes in Priorities
I defended my dissertation — my last hurdle before graduation — two weeks before my son's due date. After the...
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Dispatch from Suburbia
(Readers with pronounced visceral objections to suburbia might want to skip this post.) This weekend we went to the first...