I feel like lightening the mood after yesterday’s post, so I’m going to do a little bit of a memoir piece today. I’m going to write about the first birthday I can remember. I think[…]
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Category: realtalk
Day 353: Maybe we’re doing it wrong
Today I had the opportunity to sit on a small panel to discuss interdisciplinary work with one of my colleague’s classes. I enjoy such opportunities, and I’m glad I was able to stop in. I[…]
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Day 339: On Game Addiction
Anytime the topic of video game addiction is discussed, it’s prudent to start with the definition of addiction itself as the starting point. This is where the first issue comes to light: there are varied[…]
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Day 337: Answering someone’s Quora question
Someone asked this today: Are PhD students who get faculty job offers usually the most popular and well-socialized PhD students? Let me start by saying I think this probably varies by field. I’ve only been part[…]
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Day 324: Learning to Live with What you Are
There’s a Ben Folds lyric that goes: Sometimes Everything you’ve ever wanted Floats above He’s sticking out his tongue and laughing While everything Anyone can ever need Is down below Waiting for you To know[…]
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Day 317: Why do people take a class with the word “writing” in the title when they don’t want to write?
A story, one that happens all too often. Actually, more like a dialogue. Mine has changed. New version after the old version. “So what do you do?” “Me? I’m a professor.”* “What do you teach?”[…]
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Day 312: Institutional Biases and Skype
The other day, I had someone ask for advice about Skype interviews. I consider myself a sort of de facto expert on the Skype interview, as I’ve done several. I personally don’t like them. I[…]
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Day 304: What I'm Thankful For
To start, the sincere part. This year, as has been true every year for as long as it matters, I’m endlessly thankful for my family– my wife, my mom, our four crazy little furry kids–[…]
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Day 303: Thanksgiving cometh
Tomorrow I’m going to do the cheesy “what I’m thankful for” post, but for today, I wanted to share my sentiments as an “Indian” on Thanksgiving. For those who don’t know the actual history of[…]
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Day 300: An Open Letter to CCCC re: panel acceptance
Imagine my surprise, a few weeks ago, when I received an email from CCCC informing me that my panel, entitled “Killer Mike, Kurt Cobain and the Imperative of Rage” was accepted to the 2018 program.[…]
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