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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.
SciWo is an assistant professor of geosciences. She blogs about the intersection of science and real life - primarily based on her first-hand experiences. Her older posts can be found here.
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Category: care and feeding of graduate students
It has recently been brought to my attention that a subset of my department's graduate student population is unhappy with our course scheduling. Some of our part-time graduate students feel that we are not doing a sufficient job of offering...
Posted by SciWo at 8:04 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: motherhood
Don't worry I'll be back to the course design series soon, but I spent yesterday focused on other things (paper revisions, grant proposals) and I haven't completed the necessary work to get the next post up. And it's Friday, so...
Posted by SciWo at 5:15 AM • 66 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: whining
... is to avoid vampire meetings. Which are any meetings which suck out your soul. And perhaps damn it to eternity. Post your horror stories here if you think it will help exorcise the effects. Hat tip to 43folders.com....
Posted by Alice at 8:54 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: whining
You know, maybe it's just because it is 11:30 at night and I have another hour to wait to pick up my husband from the airport shuttle place, but... ... there are some days I wish I was still pseudonymous....
Posted by Alice at 11:27 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: let's talk about solutions
Money is on my mind a lot this semester. First, there's the grant writing marathon. And then there's the personal budgetary shortfall. Without a second income, we run a several hundred dollar per month shortfall. I've trimmed the fat...
Posted by SciWo at 7:43 AM • 70 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: whining
Musings on getting up in the dark
Posted by Alice at 6:59 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: academic adventures
What meeting? where? what time? isn't that next week?
Posted by Alice at 3:16 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: publish or perish
On a day when I am feeling increasingly dismal about the publication prospects of my current project, my mood was not lightened with the arrival of the table of contents for the current issue of a very high impact journal...
Posted by SciWo at 12:21 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
Category: motherhood
First, note the time stamp on this post. I have just now succeeded in getting Minnow to sleep and have sat down with a cup of tea and tomorrow's lecture to prepare. It's going to be a long short night....
Posted by SciWo at 10:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
