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Uptown and to the right: August 2010
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Uptown and to the right. On my way to tenure as a professor in New York's northernmost borough. Monday, August 30, 2010. Right now I am thinking I will head out shortly from this ridiculously short day in the office, because there's no A/C in my office and it's going to 95 today. (Talk about expediency with work orders, egh? I did much of what I wanted to do anyway, so I figure I could go home, get some lunch, and work on my class while in my air conditioned apartment. Friday, August 27, 2010. So the mov...
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Uptown and to the right: I'm right where I should be
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Uptown and to the right. On my way to tenure as a professor in New York's northernmost borough. Monday, April 11, 2011. I'm right where I should be. I basically told him that he shouldn't drop the current major just yet, since all of the classes he could take in the fall would work for all degrees he's considering, and may allow him to change his mind. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Im right where I should be. Get used to it. I cant teach everything. A Ianqui in the Village.
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Uptown and to the right: December 2010
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Uptown and to the right. On my way to tenure as a professor in New York's northernmost borough. Thursday, December 16, 2010. Not here to be liked. Another student made me kind of want to cry, as he looked like he was about to when he came in saying that he had no clue how to do any of the problems. He was wondering what his grade was, and quite honestly he isn't the best in the class but he does pretty well. But he looked like he was going to burst into tears so I felt really terrible. Chilly in two ways.
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Uptown and to the right: January 2011
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Uptown and to the right. On my way to tenure as a professor in New York's northernmost borough. Wednesday, January 26, 2011. The interesting thing about being a new faculty member is how much everyone else seems to not notice the little things that are rather, well, often embarrassing. Some of these things seem considerably unimportant to faculty but when seen through the eyes of the students, they can lead to problems. Old, an update of the lab manual will make it all that more appealing. So I think we ...
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Uptown and to the right: Worth the money?
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Uptown and to the right. On my way to tenure as a professor in New York's northernmost borough. Monday, May 16, 2011. There are regularly articles about whether or not college is "worth the cost." That is, given the soaring cost of college tuition, do you get your money's worth? There is sometimes an attitude that I have noticed both here and at other institutions (sometimes even among graduate students who are not paying at all, but instead being paid. To go to school! The degree you have.
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Uptown and to the right: March 2011
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Uptown and to the right. On my way to tenure as a professor in New York's northernmost borough. Thursday, March 31, 2011. I have a feeling when the fall comes, I'll be spouting a lot of "I told you so"s. Tuesday, March 29, 2011. The third student is from this area, but going to school elsewhere, and he wants to do some sort of research in my field. This person does not want to get paid, which leads me to wonder. Did he not apply for summer REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates, funded by th...I'm a...
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Uptown and to the right: Get used to it
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Uptown and to the right. On my way to tenure as a professor in New York's northernmost borough. Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Get used to it. I have to get used to the fact that there will regularly be students that I'm not a fan of. Of course there are those with personality clashes, and that will happen with all students. But then there are students that for a particular reason just annoy me, and that is because they are high maintenance. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Uptown and to the right: November 2010
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Uptown and to the right. On my way to tenure as a professor in New York's northernmost borough. Sunday, November 28, 2010. So the Thanksgiving weekend was a lot of fun, and C is on his way back upstate. That's of course the bad part. But overall everything was great. Which was also fantastic. At night then we watched Scott Pilgrim vs the World, which was fun but about ten minutes too long. I turned and said, "I was just adjusting myself, I'm sorry! Tuesday, November 16, 2010. When they have a question in...
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Uptown and to the right: And back to...work?
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Uptown and to the right. On my way to tenure as a professor in New York's northernmost borough. Wednesday, June 8, 2011. And back to.work? Then yesterday I had a complete waste of time in the morning with a meeting to attend that was required by my summer grant (two hours gone, just like that), and the afternoon was spent again catching up two students on various things. Now today I believe my other two students will be in so I will catch up with them, and that'll happen any minute now.
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Uptown and to the right: Meetings
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Uptown and to the right. On my way to tenure as a professor in New York's northernmost borough. Tuesday, April 19, 2011. This leads to several issues though. For one, when someone wants to do something (i.e., invite a speaker, host an event, work on rewriting all of the freshman science labs), they can just do it. This on some level is good, but it leads to this isolation in the department where everyone just is sort of doing their own thing, and well, inefficiencies arise. View my complete profile.
