Truth in administration
Dean Dad’s response to the USNWR rankings strikes me as honest: Ranking schemes like this invariably lead to a two-track response; I know they’re flawed, but I want to do well on them, anyway. Whew! I’m glad someone acknowledged that. Hate the flaws in the competition; need to engage in it. (I’ve been tacit blogging-wise this […]
On working when sick
I’m a fairly healthy adult, on the whole, and lucky to be so. Apart from whatever genetic proclivities I inherited from my parents and the tendency to be too sedentary when work piles up, I’m not sick too often, have reasonable control over my faculties, and consider myself temporarily able-bodied, with some luck staying that […]
Research project on former methamphetamine users in college (women only)
I normally do not pass on requests for research participation, but this is a sensitive topic where participation will require more than the usual outreach, and because it addresses the conditions for former substance users in attending college, it certainly fits this blog. This announcement is for those who live in the central Florida area: […]
The Library of Congress has webcast notices by feed
The Library of Congress webcasts looks like an amazing collection of lectures available through RealPlayer, and the announcements on the relevant pages are now fed through rss. I wish that LOC had automated the system so that they would be podcasted, but I suppose you can’t have everything.
A Full Life
By Sherman Dorn on August 24, 2007
The details for the last 24 hours: 5:20 a.m., alarm clock5:30 a.m., get into shower6:00 a.m., wrangle son into car to get to bus6:10 a.m., bus picks son up6:11 a.m., head to early-morning cafe to work on simulated case for undergraduate class I’m not teaching (something a group of us have worked on over the […]
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