A few months back, I witnessed the bloodiest fight I’ve ever seen.* I’ve seen a few fights before but they were mostly of the junior high, i’ll meet you in the woods after school where we can play-enact a fight that will be broken up by Mr. Spitler (how’s that for a junior high school [...]
Archive for the ‘mentors’ Category
More than the 8th best job…
Posted in crime, mentors on January 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Encouraging Graduate Students to Support One Another
Posted in mentors on October 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I am an advisor. I have advisees. More than one even. I met with them for the first time, ostensibly to offer some advice on the first year of grad school. I blathered about a positive attitude, attending all talks in the department, volunteering to work on research projects to get their feet wet, and [...]
Things I wish I hadn’t done in grad school or… an open letter of apology (filled with sheepishness) to my advisor, dissertation committee members, director of graduate studies, and assorted others
Posted in mentors, on the tenure track, research, writing on April 9, 2008 | 11 Comments »
It seems to me that the first year out of graduate school is characterized by much reflection on what you would do differently, if given the chance.* Many of the things that I now notice that students should NOT do also apply to new assistant professors. NOTE: I’m not talking about this with respect to [...]
More on Mentoring Undergrads
Posted in mentors, research on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve written a bit lately about working with undergrads (and even got my second link from insidehighered.com for this post). I’ve been especially pleased with one particular undergrad — she’s been a great surprise. It’s delightful to see her as excited as I was about texts and theories that I first encountered 10 years ago (ahh, sampson and [...]
In defense of undergrads…
Posted in mentors, research on February 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been thinking a lot (and commenting on scatterplot) about mentoring graduate students, how to be a good advisor, pondering my own experiences in graduate school, etc, etc… That said, it all adds up to much thought and no action. I’m not advising anyone — I have a plan with a grad student for the [...]
Mentors: How to be a good one?
Posted in mentors, on the tenure track, teaching on January 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’ve lucked out in that I’ve had some (by all accounts) really good grad students and one undergrad (for free, more on this below) express an interest in working with me. Others have come to me for methods/stats questions. I’ve survived these meetings, I think, rather well:
I didn’t giggle hysterically when they called me Dr. [...]
Mentors: How not to be a drain on the good one you had in grad school?
Posted in mentors, research on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had (have?) a kick ass advisor. On almost every indicator, he was way beyond the mean (and you’ll never get me to tell you the areas in which he wasn’t). I enjoyed writing with him, he was great for advice, wicked smart, tough on me in a way that made me want to impress him [...]
The Good ‘Ol ASA*
Posted in mentors, on the tenure track on December 31, 2007 | 5 Comments »
In my last post, I wrote about the difficulty of finding good people to talk to about the first year on the tenure track… New colleagues are out, family doesn’t quite get it, most grad school friends are in the same boat and saddled with the same worries and few answers. Well, the ASA has come [...]
