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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
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Category: Passing thoughts
The younger Free-Ride offspring's soccer team has been playing in a regional tournament this weekend, and we're girding our loins and guarding our shins to go out and play a second day of tournament games. I'm happy that they're playing...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:22 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
Chalk dust thigh: Indeed, this was the state of my pants after I walked partway across campus from my classroom to my office, so the level of chalk dust had decreased from its maximum level when I snapped this picture....
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:31 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Passing thoughts
It's been a long day, between teaching and attending to committee work, giving a colloquium talk, dealing with an emergency drill, and coming home to make a later-than-planned dinner for the kids (since my better half had to help a...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:40 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
Because, as it happens, I tend to notice patterns in student papers, then end up musing on them rather than, you know, buckling down and just working through the stack of papers that needs grading. In my philosophy of science...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:35 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Passing thoughts
Remember how I mentioned that we had some soccer tournaments this weekend? Well, it looks like we're going to need a bigger shelf....
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:24 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Since being tenured, I've tried to shift to a pattern of only coming in to campus three days a week, working from home on Mondays and Wednesdays (and giving the earth a little break by not doing my freeway commute...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:28 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Passing thoughts
After my last class today, I participated in a Future Faculty Seminar at Stanford. I was on a panel about negotiating faculty jobs, dealing with the two-body problem while on the academic job market, balancing work and life once you...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:05 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Oh joy, it's time to grade more papers! At the moment, in fact, I have two batches of papers (approximately 400 words each, approximately 100 papers per batch) to grade, since I hadn't finished marking the earlier ones before the...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:35 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kids and science
At Uncertain Principles, Chad is motivating his readers to donate to his DonorsChoose challenge by offering a big reward: Last year, I famously got $6,000 in contributions by offering to dance like a monkey, but I'm not sure what would...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:43 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
You already know that we're working with DonorsChoose to raise some money for public school teachers who are trying to give their students the engaging educational experiences they deserve (and who, owing to dismal state and local budgets, need our...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:13 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
