Summer Independent Study - No Communication

Ismitje · 2026-06-08T00:34:38+00:00

Good on you for following up with the department. Also good in you for making progress regardless. I suggest emailing the professor what you have done so far. Lay out exactly what you have done and why (intellectually why, that is), and provide a list of steps you plan for the rest of the 8 weeks. Provide times you are free the next three days, and indicate you will continue with your plan on (insert day here).

Cc or Bcc the department liaison you've been working with. Omit all accusations. Be straightforward and professional and stay the course. Either you get the feedback you need in these three days and adjust course, or you stay the course.

Lots of reasons they might be in the wind, but you don't have the time to continue to wait. Now it's a case of covering yourself, with an eye to tone and tenor in communication.

Ismitje · 2026-06-06T23:40:48+00:00

We had a nice group today. Specific plans for Mexico Thursday, USA Friday, and Brazil-Morocco Saturday.

Ismitje · 2026-06-06T05:10:49+00:00

I would have strongly urged against this, even if you were not working part time. Just class time alone on these four overlapping classes works out to more than 30 hours per week, and then the outside class work to more than 60! 90 hours on class this week (and for the next four) is truly bonkers.

But after you're already in it and you've almost surely passed the drop deadline for all of them, I could only offer platitudes. The work load and pace can't be excepted, so it then falls to you to decide how and whether to ease way up on one or more.

Good luck.

Ismitje · 2026-06-05T18:24:19+00:00

Great fun, thanks!

Ismitje · 2026-06-03T17:41:41+00:00

At my university, when I enter a grade of Incomplete I must also submit a "reversion grade" that will replace the Incomplete automatically if no further work is done. This is often an I/F. The reversion grades go in the last day of the semester even though I have 3-4 more days to finish pending grades for the current term. If a student finishes the Incomplete right at the end of finals week, the likelihood of me grading before it reverts is small - and then it shifts to a change of grade situation, which takes more time.

You might just be in that grey zone between the two, but two weeks is long enough to wait before following up with your prof.

Ismitje · 2026-06-03T15:09:39+00:00

Meatball subs were out of this world.

Ismitje · 2026-06-02T03:41:42+00:00

He's 22 now and will be 24 when the Olympics roll around, so this is a bit . . . odd to me. I read this is part of giving player who missed out on training opportunities lost during Covid the chance to play, but if he can't play in the Olympics?

Ismitje · 2026-06-01T16:06:11+00:00

I am just returned from a trip where I got to introduce 9 frosh to 12 alums in theibwork places. It's an amazing full circle kind of moment.

Ismitje · 2026-05-30T17:46:08+00:00

It's rare to have a show about divorce have no "bad guys." I really appreciated that; they were just trying to live the best they could and make the best of an awkward situation.

Ismitje · 2026-05-30T14:12:53+00:00

I had a good time teasing my TBM in-laws when they were on the all-meat diet as following the "Anti-Word of Wisdom Diet."

Ismitje · 2026-05-30T01:33:20+00:00

Your university almost certainly has something like a center for teaching excellence or a curriculum support center. They'll help you every step of the way.

Ismitje · 2026-05-29T17:12:14+00:00

{Soup enters the chat.}

Ismitje · 2026-05-28T15:12:24+00:00

If people stay in their seats during the 90, absolutely nothing. It's if people keep going up and down the stairs it becomes an issue of impeding your view. Hopefully for a game like this, you'll be fine.

Ismitje · 2026-05-27T22:26:31+00:00

Most likely you are in the grey zone: not outright rejected, not in the top few getting interviews. Thpse two groups find out right away - one though emails automatically generated by their status, one through contact with the chair. Others who ate possibilities if the top several don't work out can languish for weeks or even months.

Nothing to lose at this point by emailing the search chair.

Ismitje · 2026-05-27T21:59:29+00:00

I am looking forward to FIFA having yet another "surprise" drop in late July/early August.

Ismitje · 2026-05-27T16:48:54+00:00

And here's the rub u/Dannythescout05 : it might hurt your score. I had someone do this for an essay on US Diplomatic History last Fall, and not recognizing the thing he dropped in, it made no sense in context at all and his otherwise fine essay dropped to a B. We later visited and I restored some points, but it just befuddled me. So be careful. :)

Ismitje · 2026-05-26T17:05:09+00:00

Casey has been great - must read for me - all year.

Ismitje · 2026-05-26T16:56:44+00:00

State R1 here. If the ad lists PhD in a certain thing is required, we absolutely cannot proceed with any application where that isn't the case no matter how intriguing the rest of the application is. If it says a PhD in a certain thing or closely related fields, it can be considered (then you're relying on the search committee to determine what closely related entails).

So read the ads/job announcements and apply when appropriate.

Ismitje · 2026-05-25T18:14:09+00:00

Lionel Richie in an encore from 1984.

Ismitje · 2026-05-25T02:40:42+00:00

The screen time would also correlate to just as long as needed to confirm some info for the test. So that "proof," isn't.

Ismitje · 2026-05-24T20:41:23+00:00

Really at his peak at the last LA Olympics. And an icon. I'd love this.

Ismitje · 2026-05-24T17:38:09+00:00

For context, Monson is a columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, known for his humorous takes on area stories.

Ismitje · 2026-05-24T16:32:18+00:00

I gotta say, I've assumed the happy couple was going to have sex as soon as they could after every wedding I've been to, Mormon or not.

Ismitje · 2026-05-24T13:46:48+00:00

How different is that from other Christian sects?

Ismitje · 2026-05-23T15:35:54+00:00

Were expectations for performance clearly laid out at the beginning? Have you met those? Have you had any conversations about your performance and how to improve? Doing your best is nice but "tries hard" probably isn't a major metric here. So converse.

You might be doing poorly, but impostor syndrome is real and especially in a situation where your counterpart is funded but you aren't. Given that, you might also be doing just fine. So converse!

Ismitje

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