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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.
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Category: tenure
Recently b* (who is my tenure buddy, apparently! we're going up at the same time! w00t!) wrote a post that, I think, captures perfectly the angst, anxiety, stress, and mental craziness that the tenure process induces in otherwise sane people....
Posted by Jane at 8:30 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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: work-life balance
Um, hi. Apparently I've been gone for a while. Yeah. Sorry about that. Life's been a bit crazy around here lately, and I feel like I'm barely keeping my head above water. I'm not sleeping. I'm not taking care of...
Posted by Jane at 10:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: work-life balance
I don't normally ask you, my dear readers, for help, but this time I think I need some. You see, my motivation seems to have taken a loooooong vacation. (I mean, who can blame it, really---it's February, which is a...
Posted by Jane at 10:49 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: tenure
Text messages from numbers I don't recognize. One of them was creepy enough to put me on edge for the rest of the day. This is especially annoying because I don't have a text plan, so I end up...
Posted by Jane at 11:45 PM • 7 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: 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 • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 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
