Official Comment Count: 1,033,653
Jane is an assistant professor in a computing field, and a new mother. Join her as she navigates the tenure track, deals with gender issues, figures out how to be a parent, and tries to have some semblance of a life.
Blogging about teaching: the miniseries
Introduction
The intro courses
The intro courses, part 2
The mid-tier courses
The upper-level courses
Stuff I should probably be working on:
Journal paper #1 -- submitted, under review
Journal paper #2 -- being retooled, 60% complete
Journal paper #3 -- publication pending!
Easy conference paper -- experiments completed, need to start writing!
Next stage work -- preliminary experiments complete
Cool extension -- preliminary data gathered
June 27, 2008
Category: work-life balance
You may have noticed that there's been some "radio silence" around here, as they say, lately. Never fear, I'm still here, and I'm....coping. Sort of. Executive summary: I haven't been myself lately, and it's really, really starting to take a...
Posted by Jane at 12:15 PM • 28 Comments •
June 17, 2008
Category: mentoring
I have a few undergraduate students working in my lab for part of the summer. They started this week. Working with undergrads is something I do every summer---well, except for last summer, when I was on maternity leave. So you'd...
Posted by Jane at 11:58 PM • 0 Comments •
June 15, 2008
Category: work-life balance
In the spirit of this year's theme, "Fearless", I have signed up to run a race that's a bit longer distance than I'm normally comfortable running. Not significantly longer, but longer. At the time I signed up for it, it...
Posted by Jane at 11:29 PM • 3 Comments •
June 12, 2008
Category: tenure
I have been waiting for my summer to begin. May was a nightmarish whirlwind of deadlines and heavy amounts of work and way too many obligations, that spilled over into June. (But on the bright side, I did get another...
Posted by Jane at 9:23 PM • 1 Comments •
June 2, 2008
Category: work-life balance
The theme of this month's Scientiae carnival is "Added Weight: Taking up Space." This theme is very timely for me, since I've been thinking about this topic lately---a lot. And, readers of the old blog may remember that my "theme"...
Posted by Jane at 10:42 PM • 4 Comments •
YES! Send me a free issue of Seed.
If I like what I see, I'll receive 5 more issues (6 in all) for just $14.95. That's 50% off the cover price! If I'm not completely satisfied, I'll simply write "cancel" on the invoice and owe nothing. The free issue is mine to keep.
(Non-U.S. subscribers, click here.)
