How I would have liked to spend my day today:
8:30am-noon: Work on research
noon-1: Lunch with colleagues
1-3:30: Work on class prep/grading
3:30-4:30: Coffee w/ friends
4:30-5ish: Minor work tasks: email, update to-do lists, more grading
What my day actually looked like:
8:30-9: Respond to emails, put out fires
9-noon: Meetings
noon-1: Lunch with colleagues
1-2:45: More meetings
2:45-3:30: Grading, with several interruptions
3:30-4:30: Coffee with friends
4:30-5ish: Extension of the coffee/gossip session (um, can't I count this as networking? that's important, right?)
Somehow the term "runaway calendar" comes to mind when looking at this....Ah, the glamorous life of an assistant professor.
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So, were those meetings a total waste of time or what?
Posted by: msphd | November 2, 2008 2:40 PM