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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
Category: research
I have a To-Do list that's longer than my arm. I have multiple deadlines that are Looming Large this week. My scholarly materials are due fairly soon, and there are a couple more things that need to be sent out...
Posted by Jane at 12:20 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: mentoring
I probably should have noticed the warning signs about my graduate program earlier---like, in the first week, when I went to meet my temporary assigned advisor and he said "Oh, uh, I don't want any more students right now. Go...
Posted by Jane at 11:36 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: research
I've been in a situation this week where I've had to give my elevator pitch about my research quite a few times to quite a few people. Now, I have the standard spiel that I give, with various tweaks depending...
Posted by Jane at 12:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: tenure
For a few years now, rather than making new year's resolutions, I've been doing new year's themes. I've found it more rewarding to go with the theme idea, which is more like a principle for living one's life and guiding...
Posted by Jane at 12:00 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 0 TrackBacks
Category: research
Where is my summer?? I thought once July hit and the busyness of June subsided that I'd actually have time to, you know, maybe, relax a bit. Ha! This has been a particularly busy week. The good news is that...
Posted by Jane at 12:07 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 0 TrackBacks
