Redbud blossoms
Category: Pawley pix
Redbud blossoms seem so odd to me - coming straight out of the branch or the tree. But they make for a beautiful effect......
Posted by Alice at 7:35 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Alice Pawley is an assistant professor of engineering education at Purdue University. She blogs at the intersection of women's studies and engineering, a pretty empty space but with potential to grow. She wants to be a feminist-but-tenured professor when she grows up.
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Thinking ahead
Category: goal setting
In 10 minutes, I will be done writing this post. In 10 hours, I will have delivered my last lecture of the academic year. In 10 days, my grades will be turned in. In 10 weeks, I will have two...
Posted by SciWo at 8:59 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Good start to the day :-)
Category: academic adventures
No, really! My first meeting of the Three Days of Meetings that I thought started at 8 am, does in fact start at 8 am, but I don't have to be in it! So I get an hour back! Just...
Posted by Alice at 8:25 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2008
Spring has arrived - photographic evidence
Category: Pawley pix
... despite how miserable and cold it was today. My mom said she even saw snow!...
Posted by Alice at 7:09 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A quick update on big decisions and summer travel
Category: Alice shares...
I'm moving into the last week of the semester, and I have been having blog posts swirl around in my head for weeks now, haven't found the perseverance to sit down and write about them yet. But after this weekend,...
Posted by Alice at 6:57 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Not what I'd planned, but what I was meant to do....the impossible?
Category: Scientiae
When I started my PhD, professors and fellow students would ask me what I was planning to do with my degree. I had a ready answer: "I'll either focus on teaching or on research, but I don't want a job...
Posted by SciWo at 7:37 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nature or nurture?
Category: mommy monday
I see so much in Minnow that reminds me of myself as a child. She's enthralled by books and loves to put things into containers in a very particular (mysterious) order often stopping to take things out and then put...
Posted by SciWo at 7:24 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2008
A music meme for the weekend
Category: arts and crafts
I saw this over at Addy's and absolutely should not have spent the time on it. But I did. And here you go. Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random. Step 2: Post the first line from...
Posted by SciWo at 12:47 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 23, 2008
Growlll...
Category: Alice shares...
I am tired. Dog tired. We're nearing the end of the semester, but not so near that I can see the light at the end of my tunnel of meetings. I've been traveling every weekend for the last month, the...
Posted by Alice at 5:58 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2008
Happy Blogiversary to me!
Category: blogging
Three years ago today I started blogging at On Being A Scientist and a Woman. I was a PhD student engrossed in field work and lab work and thinking about when to start a family. Fast forward three years and...
Posted by SciWo at 10:30 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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