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
August 28, 2008
Category: work-life balance
...I'm playing hooky! I'm declaring not just a work-free weekend day, but a work-free, computer-free, long weekend. With nature and good friends and good food and all that fun stuff. See you on the flip side, and hope you all...
Posted by Jane at 10:54 PM • 0 Comments •
August 27, 2008
Category: tenure
The most popular question I've been asked lately, on campus, by colleagues: "Is this your tenure year?" Technically and officially, no, it's not---the clock stopped for a year because of Baby Jane + my sabbatical. So I go up next...
Posted by Jane at 3:56 PM • 3 Comments •
August 26, 2008
Category: work-life balance
Doesn't that sound scandalous? Sadly, it's not scandalous. But it is pretty darn cool: I just signed up for free childcare. At a computer science conference, no less....
Posted by Jane at 12:45 AM • 9 Comments •
August 25, 2008
Category: work-life balance
If I feel like I need to take a day or 2 off, I should just take a day or 2 off, stress-free, and not try to "work through it". I need a couple of weeks to decompress after...
Posted by Jane at 3:22 PM • 2 Comments •
August 18, 2008
Category: teaching
I have had two experiences in quick succession that have made me seriously wonder what kind of reading education kids these days are getting. (Jeez, did I just go over into old geezer territory? I think that's the first time...
Posted by Jane at 1:36 PM • 11 Comments •
August 13, 2008
Category: teaching
Typically, when I want to use a student's work that s/he handed in as an assignment for one of my classes in another context, I email the student to ask for his/her permission. For instance, sometimes I want to use...
Posted by Jane at 2:39 PM • 19 Comments •
August 11, 2008
Category: motherhood
...absolutely no worse feeling in the world, than watching your child being loaded into the back of an ambulance. Baby Jane is just fine now---it was more of a scare than anything else, nothing seriously wrong. But I can honestly...
Posted by Jane at 11:19 PM • 13 Comments •
August 6, 2008
Category: work-life balance
It never fails. During particularly stressful times, I tend to have nightmares. (In fact, sometimes I don't even really know how stressed I am until I start having recurring nightmares.) They were especially prevalent during my third-year review year, during...
Posted by Jane at 1:12 PM • 18 Comments •
August 4, 2008
Category: teaching
I'm teaching an intermediate-level class in the fall that I've taught a few times before with varying levels of success. I've taught it enough times that it's time to do some tweaking, and I find that I'm faced with a...
Posted by Jane at 1:04 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: work-life balance
So. I was gone for a bit. Yeah, the plan was to do a "best of" series of posts from the old blog in my absence: after all, this was something I could easily set up beforehand, and besides, we'd...
Posted by Jane at 12:04 PM • 5 Comments •
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