PHD = pressure, horror, and delusion

When I realize I signed up for too many conferences and committees...

Planning vs executing your research

When your whole class is filled with keeners, and everyone participates in discussion

In a new classroom, when I can’t get the SmartBoard to work

When a students pick their own paper topics and don’t discuss it with me

Shutting down Islamophobic comments in my class

Trying to decide whether to publish my article in a journal or edited volume .

Trying to avoid talking about the election all semester in class

omg...I’m back!

Judging from grades, I imagine my students’ study habits like

The trouble with teaching the same course/material in three sequential classes

How I feel when I talk about “technology” to my students

After hearing myself on a live radio interview

Graded first batch of papers, entered grades, and already student emailing me asking why she got the grade she did.

When the first paper I sit down to grade is ALL plagiarized