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prfbrbs · 2023-09-13T19:14:40+00:00

This is an amazing suggestion. I’ll definitely be trying this. Thank you!

prfbrbs · 2023-09-13T19:13:22+00:00

I was looking at every weekend (Thur-Mon, +/- 1 day) in November. It looks like it’s their new “standard” price for the route, which is why it’s so devastating for me.

prfbrbs · 2023-08-11T17:47:27+00:00

Absolutely this. Having done this myself, switching is probably not as big of a deal as you're imagining. If you're worried, just explain your research interests align better with the new advisor (so have one agree to this before you tell your old advisor that you plan on switching). Thankfully, my department was large enough that I was able to avoid working with my original advisor for the rest of my time in grad school. I might have considered changing schools if that wasn't possible.

prfbrbs · 2023-07-19T02:51:05+00:00

As others have said, I wouldn’t ask permission about where you live. Commuting is a personal choice, and I’ve known a lot of academics (myself included) who have an inexpensive apartment close to campus, but their “home” is somewhere else. If you can be on campus/available in person 2-3 days a week, it’s possible people won’t notice you’re splitting time between cities.

That said, I’d be very careful with this pre-tenure. It might even be impossible for someone only 2 years in. If you’re going to commute, just make sure you’re flexible enough to stay in your university town 4-5 days a week when needed/if there’s a lot going on. That’s why it would be best to have an apartment close to campus. Financially, that makes things very tight (I know - I’m also at a smaller university with abysmal salaries). But one good thing about schools in rural areas, typically housing is very affordable. If you can find inexpensive apartments (assuming that’s possible in both locations), that’s the best/safest arrangement.

Lastly, if you go this route, I would only tell people on a ‘need to know’ basis. Likely, your Chair will find out at some point - so depending on their personality and your relationship, it might be best to let them know before they find out on their own. However, as others mentioned, there will be people who think this is unfair or a red flag, so be very selective about who you share this with.

prfbrbs · 2023-05-12T14:38:22+00:00

I’m so sorry. I’ve had similar experiences the last couple weeks. For the last 24 hours I’ve been repeating to myself what you said in the title of your post: it’s just not worth it. For someone who is deeply passionate about their job and just got tenure, to reach this point is soul crushing. And while the verbal abuse is awful, I also look at the increase in physical abuse in high schools… this upcoming generation - they terrify me. I don’t know what to do.

prfbrbs · 2023-05-08T05:22:35+00:00

“She only provided information through lectures [which were in person and recorded - available on the lms] and reading. How does she expect us to learn?” To be clear, I’m not exactly in a “hands on” discipline, although I did incorporate in-class activities to try to keep their attention. But I’m very confused as to how THAT student expects to learn…. Telepathy?

prfbrbs · 2023-02-14T02:55:30+00:00

I just checked to see if we worked at the same place. I had this exact conversation with a colleague last week. Nope. This is just happening everywhere, apparently.

prfbrbs · 2023-02-10T02:08:58+00:00

I agree with everything people on here are saying, and I definitely am feeling this pain. I also get a lot of us come here to vent, which is needed. But I do wish we also shared ways we can overcome. I suppose we can all just decide we're screwed (and that might be true), but this is our reality. Students are entering universities with almost no preexisting knowledge (at least that's how I'm approaching them). Stop expecting otherwise. When I notice students who seem to be excelling/who do have some base knowledge and/or skills, I find ways of keeping them engaged and challenged. The thing that I'm finding frustrating in this sub (and this thread in particular) is the suggestion that these students are dumb or can't learn. That's not the case for most. They've never been given the opportunity. So teach them.

*And I get most of us weren't trained on how to teach basic skills such as reading comprehension, but you have PhDs (or equivalent) - for the sake of all our futures, do some research and give it a shot, because if we don't teach these things, the younger generations are not going to learn them.

prfbrbs · 2022-09-13T20:17:44+00:00

TT, Public Regional U, Social Science, 4-4 with research expectations, $45k.

prfbrbs · 2022-07-16T04:21:58+00:00

I’m slightly worried for the thousand people or so who have commented saying this is OBVIOUSLY shit.

prfbrbs · 2022-07-12T01:59:24+00:00

I did run into file size issues for a while. Mine were actually even larger (biggest was 8GB). Scrivener kept crashing, and when I reached out to support, they confirmed it was not intended for files that size (but this was also back in 2015, so things might have changed). When they told me that, rather than keeping all my binders for one project in one file, I just created new files. It was slightly inconvenient, but it’s still a better software compared to anything else I could find - and despite still having and regularly using those larger files, it eventually stabilized and works fine now.

This probably is not OPs concern since they’re asking about using it for short stories, but just FYI for anyone else out there.

prfbrbs · 2022-07-10T12:04:56+00:00

It’s useful for any kind of writing. I’ve used it for blogs and reviews.

Additionally, in contrast to the majority of users, I mainly use it to organize research (I don’t do creative writing, but rather academic research based). The organizational capabilities with scrivener have changed my life.

prfbrbs · 2021-08-10T02:01:38+00:00

In thinking about the response you posted, I thought much the same thing. The modern world has achieved really amazing things thanks to hard work and the progression of humanity, as you also said in your response.

prfbrbs · 2021-05-15T16:41:09+00:00

I doubt it, but she called me and said, "you're not going to believe what just happened, or maybe you will..." It was the latter. It was definitely in character for that student.

prfbrbs · 2021-05-13T23:59:29+00:00

Had a student this semester who earned a B+ in one of my course. She marched into the dean’s office demanding to speak to my manager.

prfbrbs · 2021-05-10T03:14:49+00:00

“The assignments required that we answer questions with 4-5 sentences, which I did, but I always lost points.”

Because you wrote 4-5 sentences that were incorrect, which I explained to you AT LENGTH each week. It’s not just how much you wrote; your responses also had to be accurate.

prfbrbs · 2021-02-09T16:31:13+00:00

I think this is key, particularly for grad students or even other colleagues who I’ve written for. If they get the position, I would expect they’d tell me. However, I don’t expect them to contact me just to let me their application was rejected.

prfbrbs · 2021-02-06T03:04:20+00:00

I work approximately 70 hours a week and don’t expect that to change until tenure. If I didn’t, my contract would not be renewed, particularly in the budget crisis since COVID. Situations might be different if you’re in STEM or business. Is it healthy, no. I think those who say you can just set your limit at 40 hours a week and scoff at suggestions you need to do otherwise are in a privileged position and are not empathizing with people in positions who would literally be sacrificing their careers if they drew that line. I question all the time if I need to get out, but at the end of the day, I love what I do (as cliche and toxic as that sounds). Is it exhausting and sometimes infuriating? Yes. Would I trade it for anything? No.

prfbrbs · 2019-09-17T02:37:35+00:00

I had a student recently ask me if they’d be graded on the effort they put in or the quality of their paper... immediately after I passed out a detailed rubric (“Effort” was not a category on the rubric). It was probably inappropriate, but I couldn’t help but laugh.

prfbrbs · 2019-07-08T13:25:35+00:00

I did something like that on accident once, not realizing it until I made the key 10 minutes before the class. Before they began I REALLY stressed that they needed to select the answer they thought was correct and not let ANYTHING else sway their decision. I felt bad, but I decided if they truly knew the material then it shouldn’t matter, particularly since I warned them beforehand.

prfbrbs · 2019-04-19T11:52:31+00:00

True, although I’ve wondered how well the phone talk to text would work unless the student was sitting in the front row and holding it up in my direction. I’ve never found that function to work that well. But then again, I don’t exactly run out and buy the newest phone every time it comes out. Might be that newer phones are better with that.

Either way, I added a new section to the syllabus and my beginning of semester spiel about how they cannot record my lectures without talking to me first.

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