Disclaimer: this may be the most dangerous post I’ve ever written. If you misread it, you may think I am suggesting you should “phone it in” as a student. If my employers misread it, they may think I’m “phoning it in at work.” Both are […]
Category: Manage Your Time
Settling In: Finding Your Real Routine
For Students: Iteration Over Perfection When Plans Meet Reality Picture this: you sit down on Tuesday night, determined to get through your homework. You clear the desk, open your laptop, and start working. An hour later, you’ve stared at the same problem for twenty minutes, […]
First Friday: Starting the Semester You Want
The Mirror of Stress I’ve realized something after years on both sides of the classroom. For faculty, the most stressful day of the semester is Day 1. We set the systems and policies that everyone will live with for sixteen weeks — and we make […]
The Week Before: A Calm, Confident Launch
The Week That Feels… Strange This week always feels strange, doesn’t it? Summer has its own rhythm: slow mornings, flexible days, deciding what to do as you go. Then suddenly, the semester is here—and life doesn’t fit the same way anymore. It’s like parking on […]
Getting Ready
As summer comes to an end I once again find myself in “prep week” – that short but essential time to get everything in place so that an amazing semester is inevitable. It’s one of my favorite weeks of the year because nothing is set […]
Midterm Rehab
Surviving. That’s the number one word students (and faculty) use to describe themselves in the middle of the semester. Time, Money, and Career are three areas of life that can combine to cause so much stress! I recently gave a workshop to share quick, simple […]
In Defense of Deeper Thoughts
As we work to make higher education equitable and inclusive, we face a fundamental challenge: scaling our offerings to a larger student body without scaling the faculty in the same proportion. A key aspect of access is cost, and bringing additional faculty into the mix […]
Ready. Fire. Aim.
Oooof late start today for me because my kids are sick (just the normal stuff). On days like this it can be easy to be stressed because I lost an hour of work, and I HAVE to be ready for class at 11:30, 2:30, 4:00, […]
A New Routine
I’ve recently realized that I basically have everything I wanted out of life. This is both incredibly fulfilling, and strangely challenging. What do I struggle for now? What gets me out of bed? What am I working towards? Growth. The first stage of life is […]
BRB
Hey there! I am so excited to tell you that I am working on some big things! I’m almost ready to share the details, but not quite! In the meanwhile, the finishing touches on these two major projects are consuming all of my attention. I’ll […]
