As I have been counselling students this summer, a lot of conversation has come up from students over what course to take based on the professor who was teaching. They seem to really care about who the professor is and
FollowI had my first prank in lecture at the end of the school year. A savvy student (or group of conspirators) placed a smart phone inside my podium timed to go off with a song, ten minutes into lecture. I
As I celebrate the end of my note preps for the fall, I am finally able to start constructing my presentations. I love constructing the actual lectures. All of my really hard work is done and now I get to
It seems depressing but this long August weekend is not for fun…it is the last push before our printing deadlines for all our course pack notes. I am currently creating notes for 18 lectures for one of our large third
Although I’ve been faculty for a few years, grantsmanship has been lower on the priority list. I don’t have a typical 40% teaching 40% research 20% service workload. I am atypical and am expected to spend 90% of my
I had a sad conversation a few days ago while away on a visit back to my home town. The conversation was with a late 20s woman who I found out was my third cousin, let’s call her Mary (I’ve