I have had some interesting exchanges with students over the last few days. The word that seems to link these interactions lately has been TRUST. Can I trust my professor? Let me explain. In one of the courses I manage,
FollowI have been pondering my energy focus in my job. As a professor I do have a lot of freedom within my job. I am still tasked with teaching certain courses and a number of lectures, but the rest of
Yes, I am pregnant (and thrilled!). I somehow made it through the first few weeks of lecturing while feeling terrible. But now the pregnancy is quite obvious (how did that happen so fast??) and my regular clothes no longer fit.
I love my smart phone, I love twitter and most of the time I like email. But after the end of the semester I was so burned out and so obsessed with my ability to answer every email within hours
Winter has seriously hit southwestern Ontario. We had 70 cm of snow fall in less than a day this past weekend (that’s almost 30 inches of snow for my non-metric friends). I don’t yet have snow tires on my car
Often times I am asked, “can’t your teaching assistant do that?” ….when I am piled with emails, student appointments and marking.. And I find myself saying “no”. Not everything can be or should be done by a teaching assistant. They