[Each week at ProfHacker, Billie Hara (and friends) offer "What's For Lunch?"—health-conscious recipe suggestions and a discussion space for readers to pick up some tips and share their own. AtProfHacker, we recognize that sometimes lunch is a lifehack.—Ed.]

We at ProfHacker understand the busy lives of folks in higher education. We provide tips on technology, productivity, pedagogy, on the aspects of life that might need hacks. If you are like me, in the late afternoon, say 3:00 p.m., I hit a slump, and I need a hack. Suddenly I'm sleepy, my mind is foggy, and my body feels tired. It's the perfect time for a brisk walk around campus, a cup of green tea, and, if I'm hungry, and afternoon snack. It's easy to run to the vending machine and buy a candy bar and a soft drink, but the effects of those products are not long lasting (in terms of energy) and are too long lasting (in terms of...

Today at ProfHacker we begin a new series on the transitions we experience and move through in higher education. One of the biggest (shocking, startling, unsettling, stress producing) transitions is from graduate student to full-time tenure-track assistant professor. And that's our post today: "An Open Letter to Next Year's Full-Time Tenure Track Assistant Professors."

Working in higher education can be difficult, and as graduate students, we think we understand those difficulties. We think we've been trained to handle whatever comes our way. Then we get the tenure track position, and, well, the transition from grad student to faculty member isn't always pretty. Today the voices of experience--those of us current assistant professors, those who are ending their first year right now--have perspectives incoming faculty members might need hear. What we want to provide today are words...

[Each week at ProfHacker, Billie Hara (and friends) offer "What's For Lunch?"—health-conscious recipe suggestions and a discussion space for readers to pick up some tips and share their own. At ProfHacker, we recognize that sometimes lunch is a lifehack.—Ed.]

The "What's for Lunch?" column is expanding, and we aren't talking about our waistlines. Several ProfHacker readers have asked us in post comments and on Twitter, "What's for breakfast?" or "What's for dinner?" and "What's a good afternoon snack?" and being the helpful folks that we are, we provide answers, or more accurately, we provide suggestions and we ask you for the answers.

So, today? Three egg dishes for breakfast.

Creamy Scrambled Eggs

Ingredients

• 2 or 3 large eggs
• 1/2 cup thin cream
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 tbs butter
• 1/4 cup parsley, finely chopped

Directions

Gently whisk the eggs, cream and salt and...

We at ProfHacker are a prolific bunch. Three ProfHacker posts a day, five days a week, since July? That's a lot of writing. Prolific writing, however, shouldn't be confused with easy writing. Some of us here struggle a bit producing what we need to produce here plus writing that is required for our jobs.

And since we are a prolific, but generous, bunch, we share what we have with you. We have written about the commitment to write, writer's block, the DRAW method, writing groups (in person and on line), writing strategies, and we've even compared ourselves to athletes (OK, not us personally, but us as writers).

Since we are writing so often, we are always on the lookout for ways to inspire us to write more, to write differently, to write more effectively. Inspiration is the Writer's Boot Camp theme for today. What inspires you to write?

A quick poll among writers offered these...

[Each week at ProfHacker, Billie Hara (and friends) offer "What's For Lunch?"—health-conscious recipe suggestions and a discussion space for readers to pick up some tips and share their own. At ProfHacker, we recognize that sometimes lunch is a lifehack.—Ed.]

About a week ago, I moved. (The lunacy of moving the week before the semester ends is another post.) In the move, however, I worked hard at downsizing my possessions. Even though I had only moved to this location about a year ago, I found that I'd collected even more stuff at-one-time-valuable items that I no longer needed. Part of this downsizing meant working through my kitchen and losing all those things I didn't use or need. In that downsizing, I found some interesting things I'd forgotten I had. That's the inspiration for today's recipe.

Here at ProfHacker, we write a lot about stand-alone recipes and dishes that we,...

For the past few months, ProfHacker has published a series of posts on the "disruptive student." These disruptive student behaviors range from the student who talks too much (answering all questions) to the student who only talks to her/his friends (with little regard for the rest of the class), from students who display a disruptive amount of skin (our most recent post in this series), to today's post: students who display offensive/insensitive slogans on their clothes.

For clarity, we are defining "disruptive student behavior" as behavior that impedes learning and teaching in a classroom.

In our last post, "too much skin edition," we wrote about the dilemma most of us face in a university classroom, how seeing too much of a male or female student's body can be problematic for a professor but also for other students. A concern about too much skin can be a regional one (tropical...

[Each week at ProfHacker, Billie Hara (and friends) offer "What's For Lunch?"—health-conscious recipe suggestions and a discussion space for readers to pick up some tips and share their own. At ProfHacker, we recognize that sometimes lunch is a lifehack.—Ed.]

ProfHacker's "What's for Lunch?" column returns this week with an old standby goody: salads.

Salads, as most of realize, can be healthy for us and inexpensive to make. They are also highly versatile.

While lettuce and tomato salads are good, there are so many other ingredients we can add to those basic salad components:

• Lettuce (romaine, arugula, iceberg)
• Spinach
• Hard boiled eggs (chopped or sliced)
• Peppers (green, yellow, orange, red)
• Cucumber
• Tomatoes (fresh or sundried)
• Artichokes
• Olives
• Asparagus
• Avocados
• Edamame
• Tofu (marinated or plain)
• Beans (chickpeas, kidney, corn, black bean)
• Meat (sliced cold cuts,...

I have a Writer's Boot Camp secret today. Don't tell your colleagues. Don't tell your students. I only want you to have this information, as this knowledge might give you some kind of advantage. The secret? Writing is hard work. Yea, I know that's not really a secret. But this post had to start somewhere.

Here at ProfHacker, we have written many posts detailing ways we can make the writing process smoother, faster, easier. Or doable. We strive to make writing doable. And we share our ideas. Writing hints that work for me might work for you. Your hints to produce usable writing might help others, and we hope you'll share those hints. Some hints are simple; others are more difficult. But we share, nonetheless. The "butt in chair" method of producing written text, a hint that is shared by many, is probably the best way to accomplish a writing goal. Just do it. Today, however...