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The adventures of a woman in computing.
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
December 24, 2008
Category: tenure
In the midst of all of the end-of-classes and journal deadline and too-many-projects and holiday and general craziness around here, it was almost lost on me that I have inadvertently let a door close this year: I apparently have decided,...
Posted by Jane at 12:22 PM • 1 Comments •
December 19, 2008
Category: tenure
I have a number of friends at various institutions that are up for tenure this year. Every school is on its own unique schedule, of course, so some of my friends are finding out right about now, officially or unofficially...
Posted by Jane at 12:31 AM • 13 Comments •
December 10, 2008
Category: work-life balance
No, really, I have been boring lately. No drama (well, unless you count the day one of my senior colleagues came into my office to announce that he had nothing to do....as I'm in the midst of slogging through my...
Posted by Jane at 10:57 PM • 1 Comments •
December 3, 2008
Category: tenure
Prioritizing is good. Prioritizing is absolutely necessary in this job. But what do you do if you have time this month to do X projects, but X+1 projects are "high priority"? Is cloning legal yet? Number of high priority...
Posted by Jane at 11:19 PM • 6 Comments •
