“You have to learn to be a good prison guard,” said my colleague after visiting my lower division class, but that is precisely the reason I want to leave academia. I am not interested in being a prison guard at all, and to the extent one is expected to be that or a social worker, … More “You have to learn how to be a good prison guard”
My subunit does far too much of it. It is required to combat the forces that want to close our programs — understaffed, we must remain interesting and have many advanced students. This is a trap, however, since the service we do to create our right to exist, as it were, cuts heavily into research … More On service
1/ To write, you have to do research, and I since a certain point I have always been under such pressure to write before doing research. In research you follow up on things, read, and let what you read change your thoughts rather than just eat the pieces you need for your own writing production … More On research
I honestly think and have always thought the only way to get enough peace of mind and research time would be to let the major and graduate programs die. We do amazing amounts of service and out of field teaching to keep these going. Without them, we would teach one more section of service courses … More Method
That Unapologetic Mexican was hacked, and although I have delinked him browsers still apparently say this site is affected with malware. Do you see me? Axé.
I would really like to see this film. Axé.
I do know how to measure for lingerie and I have not changed. But the lingerie appears to have done, such that I have had to go one number down and one letter up. Is this a trend in vanity sizing, or has it only happened to me? Also, now that I am one whole … More Vanity sizing for lingerie? and, my identity in shoes
DCLioness left a comment on a recent post that contained an important word: deprofessionalization. I keep trying to figure out why it is that I shrink and do not grow in the profession the longer I work at the kind of institution I do, and deprofessionalization would be the answer. I know one is expected … More On deprofessionalization
You only say this because you have never held an administrative position or undertaken major service. In the meantime, I will remove the services of your IT department and those in charge of your physical plant. If you are foreign language faculty, I will remove the study abroad office from your university while also requiring … More Academic Myth #1: “Administration is useless, and service is easy”
It may just be my perception but it seems to me that the verb assumir is or embodies a Brazilian cultural value. People are always talking about the importance of taking responsibility, taking charge, assessing, declaring and facing the reality of a situation. It seems to me that much academic advice goes in the opposite … More Assumir
