I sent a paper out a few months ago, aimed silly-high, assumed it would get rejected, and went on about my business.
It did get rejected but the reviewers didn’t hate it. They bought the method, believed my results, but basically wanted the paper I’m currently working on. In summary, I sent the ‘here’s the effect’ [...]
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I’ve discovered something worse than “the reviewers hated it…”
Posted in on the tenure track, research, writing on April 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
Weeks 9-10 Product Report and… a cloud!
Posted in on the tenure track, research, writing on March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The last two weeks went well, writing-wise. One great week, one not so great, adds up to doin’ fine.
And, a word cloud that succinctly summarizes newsocprof — I have no tech savvy but think these are very cool. HT to the folks at the crime blog for pointing the link out to me. Now, who can [...]
Week 8 Product Report
Posted in on the tenure track, research, writing on February 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Nada. I did nothing remotely resembling writing last week. I lived in the land of STATA, worked on my teaching, took a few nights off and watched reruns of a highly embarrassing show that I won’t name here (high school drama, currently in syndication, enough said)…
I’m still struggling with what I am supposed to be tracking [...]
Week 7 Product Report
Posted in work/family, writing on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Product report is late this week not because I didn’t write but because newsocprof was off to Vegas for the weekend (sans newsocprof junior!*). Last week, I wrote for 4 out 5 days. I think I may decide that 4 days out of 5 is a reasonable goal after tracking this for 7 weeks. Is [...]
Product Report Six… Mixed
Posted in on the tenure track, teaching, writing on February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mixed results again this week… I meant to write five days but only wrote three (though looking at my Monday schedule, I’m not sure when I planned to write that day). Then, I blew off Thursday by working on a lecture for my new class (a cardinal sin in every “how to get tenure at [...]
Week 5 Product Report… Back on track
Posted in writing on February 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I was back on track last week (almost). I wrote for 4 out of 5 days, finished a paper, and started another. I could have written this weekend to make up for my lazy Wednesday but elected not to — I wouldn’t want to risk burning out or anything…
Week 4 Product Report… Crash and Burn
Posted in on the tenure track, research, writing on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it’s safe to say I crashed and burned on week 4 of trying to write a little every day. I couldn’t even get up the motivation to write a short blog post detailing my disinterest in writing, so this gives you some sense of how last week went. In keeping with my rock star [...]
Vista
Posted in research, teaching, writing on January 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Speaking of things that suck away your time (see here and here and here), why can’t Microsoft just improve an operating system? Why must they change EVERYTHING, all at once? I was really tempted to buy a Mac when I first started my job but lacked courage. I did, however, insist on not having a Dell and [...]
Product Report Three… I am a grammy-nominated rock star
Posted in writing on January 18, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Third week of trying to write every day. Despite major obstacles (good obstacles, I had many fun things planned this week that delightfully got in the way of work), I kept to my goal of writing every day. More importantly, I submitted my ASA paper on time (with an hour to spare!) and finished a [...]
