FemaleScienceProfessor

Several times in the past year or so I have had to combat the suggestion that faculty, postdocs, and grad students "of today", no...

When I used to blog 5 days/week, it was easy to come up with topics. No topic was too trivial, it seemed . Since I haven't been bloggin...

In a comment last week, someone stated that grad students are "4 to an office", as if this is a general fact. Is it? Maybe it is ...

Which would you find emotionally easier : having someone occupy your home while you are away for an extended period of time or having someon...

Today I listened to a podcast about "phantom vibrations" -- sensory hallucinations that people experience when they think their ...

There were some interesting comments on a recent post about professorial office space, and it seems that professors who commented are prett...

Whenever I visit another university or another department at my university and spend some time in faculty offices, I always look around at t...

When I moved into my office in my current department, I was not provided with office furniture, so I rummaged around in campus and departmen...

The results of Friday's poll about how often people eat lunch at their desk are very surprising to me. Who knew that so many people ate ...

As happens from time to time, even in summer, I was recently eating lunch 'al desco'. While I was eating-working, a student walked i...

My preferred method for acquiring information and making decisions about textbooks is to browse the offerings at conference exhibits, talk t...

A friend of mine who has been a provost and dean has entertained me for years with stories about amazing things faculty and students (at oth...

This week my two most frequent sources of intra -office distraction are away. One might suppose that a consequence of my being left to my ow...

Does a week ever go by without some random, bizarre occurrence? Would life be boring if these things didn't happen, even if some of them...

Being efficient doesn't necessarily correlate with being neat; at least, not in my case. My office is piled high with lots of stuff, old...

How to fill those gaps in time when students come to your office for help, but they are not organized about it? They arrive, rummage in thei...

A few months ago I wrote about a strange man who had been wandering into my office and acting in a disturbing way. He continued to appear at...

When I am in my office during the day, I almost always keep my door open. I like that my students and colleagues can stop by any time and ch...