it’s that time of the year again…

Conference time and job market time is here!
The summer has gone by so fast. It’s been a blur of teaching, planning lectures, and grading. I appreciate so much having the teaching experience, but lecturing 4 times a week is killer. It’s too much packed in a too short a period of time and it’s hard [...]

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the trees for the forest and the forest for the trees

As of today, my summer teaching is halfway over! And technically I only have 3 more weeks of instruction, because the students are presenting their final projects the last week of class. Woohoo!
Overall, the class has been fine. I do love teaching this particular class. The summer course is intense in workload, but the students [...]

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… and sometimes I just go looking for a way to stress about the job market…

Let me first say this: I’ve turned in 98% of my applications. I’m not super worried– maybe it’s denial– but I’m not loosing sleep. I’m just digging in and focusing as much as I can on my dissertation. Writing has become a blessing/distraction/refuge. All I want to do is write. Even when it is hard. [...]

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nightmares about incomplete sentences?

I can now add a new kind of stress dream to my grad school experience.
For years grad school stress dreams have almost become predictable– always comprising of something like presenting without knowing what to say at a conference, running late to a meeting or conference presentation, or the ever-dreaded sounding really dumb at a thesis/phd [...]

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