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Seven ways to figure out whether you're a junior prof:

1. You spend a lot of time avoiding committee meetings
2. You've hidden from a student by diving under the desk
3. Achieving a personal life is on your list of things To Do
4. You still haven't given up on the idea of Free Food
5. Your real expertise lies in exploring the local happy hour scene
6. You're always working on your "Book"
7. You spend more than 8 hours a day contemplating alternate career plans

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Academic Spring Cleaning

The air is full of pollen and the birds have become an inordinately early alarm clock. It's spring. My office is the next space to be cleaned. I can no longer see my desk. Peering out at students between large stacks of unfiled lectures, publishing fliers, conference announcements, student papers, drafts of yet-unpublished articles and book chapters, articles to read, etc. is starting to drive me nuts. So I am issuing a general call for all junior faculty to indulge themselves in a bit of spring cleaning. Good for the soul; good for the mind.
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  1. AnonymousApril 25, 2009 at 7:39 PM

    I threw several years' worth of lecture notes into the recycling bin! Now, if I can only convince myself to part with old papers that students never picked up....

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  2. AnonymousApril 25, 2009 at 9:21 PM

    If they are more than a year old... I say throw them away!!

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