september reflection
What a month! I’ve never had a more exhausting September — neither the first year of teaching nor the first semester of grad school come close. More frustrating is that I’m still not really sure why...
View Articlefriday five #14: podcast edition
With the newest episode of The More Trivial the Better out, featuring long stretches of silence from yours truly (please subscribe and review!), I thought it would be a good idea to devote this week’s...
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Some advice for those of us, like me, who teach in a hybrid (half-online, half-in-class) format: ProfHacker’s tools to make the online space more effective. A list of tips and strategies for gamifying...
View Articlemy non-teaching still-working life
I’m in my non-teaching semester now, though it hasn’t been a lot of downtime so far. I seem to have a mountain of projects that were just waiting for the seemingly vast stretches of time that would...
View Articlespring break rules!
We have a two-day Study Break here this week, so I’ve been getting caught up on a few things. I completed a funding application, put the finishing touches on a proposal for a new project I’m working...
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what I’ve been reading for funsies
Two books I’ve enjoyed so far in 2011: Room by Emma Donoghue: I’m late to the party on this one, I know, but what a truly splendid novel. The kind of novel that leaves you feeling a little empty when...
View Articleon non-teaching time
Do you ever find you have to actively decompress after a lecture? Or after a day of lecturing? Or a week? I’ve found this semester that I live for Thursday night — it’s the only night of the week I...
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