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Tying up loose ends and creating others
My office desperately needs a river to run through it after the end-of-semester streamlining of tasks (teaching first, breathing second, everything else last). Nonetheless, I want to accomplish something concrete today. That chapter, still due in Herb Rieth’s hands, needs but two citations and a proofreading before it goes off. So it has first priority. […]
No work
Congratulations to all USF students graduating today. Monday is soon enough to start on summer projects. Sorry to all 0.427 readers who were expecting a pithy thought today. Check the archives!
Done
I have just turned in final grades to the department office, where they’ll go (probably tomorrow) to the university registrar. Despite the registrar’s office having a scantron form for grades (according to a former student of mine), we still handwrite the grades, and the university hires clerks to type in each grade by hand. One […]
Closing in
My daughter’s been sick, now (after my son), so grading and other work is being juggled with child care (and hanging around the house). Yesterday I rushed into the office, e-mailed myself some documents, did a few other items, and left. I graded a majority of my student quizzes remaining, so I really don’t have […]
Most enjoyable transferable skills
By Sherman Dorn on May 12, 2001
Over the past ten days, I’ve carried on a correspondence with a graduate student at another institution who is having problems with her advisor and wondering if she can do anything with her skills if "professoring" doesn’t work out. Among other bits, I brought out our dogeared copy of Richard Bolles’ What Color Is Your […]
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