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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Work-Life Balance, A Follow-Up: The Guilty Academic
What perfect timing! A friend recently shared with me an article from GradHacker. The author of the article talks about the guilt that he or she feels while attempting to do any non-dissertation-oriented activities. This definitely struck a chord with … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Grad School, Pokie, Work / Life Balance
Being Faculty
So the first week of the semester in PFP, we had to quickly write down what we thought it meant to be a faculty member. Looking back at it, I must have really been in a bad mood: A faculty … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in gedivts12, pfps2012, professional life
Sharing Cambridge Ideas
Cambridge Nights is a very interesting site that tries to “share bits and pieces of Cambridge with the rest of the world” by interviewing the distinguished professors of different fields in universities within Cambridge, MA. The very latest one is an … Continue reading → Continue reading
Why We Need Journal of Failures?
We had this discussion in class that it is benefiicial to have a jounral that publishes the failures in research which will be very useful from many different perspectives. One perspective that I mentioned was that with publishing failures plagiarism … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in PFP 2012
A faster way to grade papers?
For those who are about to face a mounting pile of end of semester papers, check out this article on a potential way to speed up the process. Since I haven’t yet faced that challenge, I’d love to hear any … Continue reading → Continue reading
In Retrospect
I have to confess that I was skeptical of “learner-centered” teaching when I began the semester. I imagined unproductive classrooms where nothing was really learned. I heard rumors that the over-arching philosophy of the class was ”the student is ALWAYS right.” … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy
Is College Worth It?
While working on the scholarly essay on the value of higher education I found that the debates on if the college education worth the cost and time is significantly increasing. There are many blog postings and writing on this topic and one was published just today … Continue reading → Continue reading
How as an adviser/faculty, we can cultivate the creativity of our students
The following interesting story shows how a student solved one of the unsolved problems in math because he didn’t know that it was just an example of “unsolved problems”. A key question is that was he able to solve it if he had known … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in PFP 2012
Mad Men and Modernity: A Preview
It has been awhile (a little over a month) since I posted anything here. I want to make sure that this brief lull in posts is not indicative that I no longer care about this blog or will no longer … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Political, Pop Culture