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« on: October 31, 2007, 04:06:41 PM » |
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Rjenny (on the "tenure this year" thread) asked if anyone had developed any obsessive tendencies or odd habits while waiting for the word from on high (or at least from the tenure committee). So?
Aside from reading this particular forum every single day, I did find myself thinking "this could be my last X as an assistant professor" at various and sundry times.
Anyone else?
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I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you!
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choirguy
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« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2007, 09:23:28 PM » |
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I'm having to be careful not to forget to STFU except for the most important issues.
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« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2007, 09:34:12 PM » |
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Yes, I find myself forgetting about the whole thing as the file wanders up the food chain of the U unless someone in my dept *with* tenure "congratulates" me on *getting* tenure and promotion---its all I can do not to scream: "I don't HAVE tenure, there are four more levels for it to go through yet!!!!" I do not know why this sets me off so much
and, I'm compulsively on here lately as I watch TV or sit waiting in office hours. I'm not getting work done in office hours, just reading threads here of the sort I never have (meet and greet, for example). Compulsively.
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alshealy: "Nothing says 'retreating from society' like learning to play the banjo."
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dr_stones
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« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2007, 09:59:52 PM » |
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I recall, in meetings, I would always take two bags of miniM&Ms with me.
Open both bags.
Pour on the table.
Sort by colour.
Arrange by the color spectrum.
Then resort from low to high by number of M&Ms.
Eat, one at a time, by colour.
According to my best friend on our faculty, I started doing it before my first vote and only quit after getting my letter from the Regents.
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espagnole
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« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2007, 10:02:37 PM » |
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I totally agree with the frustration that comes with senior colleagues who assume I have tenure (I passed the department and chair level with flying colors which bodes well for other levels, but it isn't over until it's over). I told my colleague that things look good, but I won't start celebrating until it's really official (sometime in December).
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nada_cum_laude
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« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2007, 07:02:32 AM » |
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I've passed the department level with flying colors, and thought that my stress level would decline quite a bit after that. But, it hasn't. I feel an internal conflict between wanting to act as though I now actually have tenure (speak out about things I see that really need correction... not work myself to death to get out just one extra paper... devote myself to some badly needed course improvements instead of focusing 100% on research... really mentor my graduate students... etc.) vs. the feeling that I can't let myself relax... "just in case". It wasn't hard to keep myself in "research overdrive" when I knew the vote was in the future. Now that I'm in limbo, I'm paralyzed by thinking that I might actually need to stay geared up, but that I want (and probably can now afford) to take care of some other things for once. The departmental vote is such a bizarre, anti-climactic, non-final event that it's hard to know how to respond.
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Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
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oldfullprof
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« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2007, 09:42:37 AM » |
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Ha, ha. I hit this forum a lot. And not just with this screenname. Also the RMP forum. I'd shoot my 12-gauge off the real deck too. I surfed off-color websites. I...
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svenc
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« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2007, 11:22:33 PM » |
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I started posting on the CHE fora.
I know, I'm a freak.
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oldfullprof
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« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2007, 06:07:41 PM » |
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I also made Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan sound effects, like "kreegah" and "bundulo" when walking the halls. I made sure to color coordinate my jean outfits. I washed my car frequently. I took a autobiography course.
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fannie
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« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2007, 11:10:12 PM » |
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All I know is immense feeling of relief that all of the paranoia has gone away since I turned in my file. I no longer give a crap.
But the day I turned in my file, as soon as I turned in the file (all-nighter), I went to McDonalds, ate three breakfast sandwiches and drank two coffees, came back to my office to start the day, and about five minutes into it went cotton-headed and couldn't think or talk and for some reason my hearing went all cloudy too, and it sounded like I was at the bottom of a well or had a sudden head cold, and I had to advise all day, and I truly have no idea what I said to students except for a couple who I told to just write me a note because I couldn't talk any more, and I told a couple that it was adrenaline leaving my system, not drugs (really), and then I slept for 20 hours straight.
Things have been better since.
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chaud
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« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2007, 10:58:51 PM » |
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I went on interviews elsewhere.
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