In with the new: first-year students, where’s your parachute?
Welcome to the new semester, friends! As I’m sitting at my old desk, in my new home, contemplating the oodles of class prep I have to do for my new classes, I cannot help but feel like all this newness...
View ArticleThe Notebook Dump
image via Allegations are coming by the bushel, and we are in a moment of figuring out how to sort them. In journalism, there’s a term called “notebook dump,” the process of throwing together all...
View ArticleMaking Small New Habits
I love New Year’s resolutions. I do. I really love them. I love them so much I write about them in fall and winter and spring. Hurrah for semesters and Solstices! In fact, I think I have come to...
View ArticleSeptember is for looking forward
Twenty-two years ago my mom drove me from my summer job at the family business in Ontario to begin my first year of university in North Carolina. Seventeen years ago I moved from the interior of...
View ArticleWoman, interrupted: a guide for men
image via It’s a new school year and, if you work in a college or university, that means another year of meetings. Woohoo! I’m in a lot of meetings and I think a lot about how to have a better meeting....
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Confessions of a feminist associate dean
I’ve been an associate dean for about six months — just about enough time for me to ‘fess up about a few things. Image via I didn’t really know what an associate dean is when I agreed to be one. It is...
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Inside a State of Emergency, the University Edition
What you were doing ten days ago? Hugging a friend? Meeting someone at a talk and shaking their hand? Teaching inside a classroom? Doing research in your lab or at the library? Going for coffee or...
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Guest post: “Fetch the Bolt Cutters!” Or, How Fiona Apple Gave Me the Freedom...
This post is by Myra Bloom. There seem to be two main ways of dealing with the end of the world as we knew it: some people are conjuring an illusion of normalcy. They’re leaning extra hard into...
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