Review, Rinse, Repeat Episode 3: The prof who did too much

Last week, I received very good news: I have been reappointed at Bates for three more years! So there will be some breathing room between this review and the big one. I am talking of course about the tenure review. This fourth-year review process was a lot of work and taught me many things. In this post I wanted to share one of the most important lessons I learned.

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A jolly good fellowship

If you have read the “about me” part of this blog, you may already know that my first experience with writing about mathematics for a general public was the AMS-AAAS Mass Media Fellowship during the summer of 2007. I published an article about my experience at the Voice of America in the Notices of the AMS the following February (you can find the article by clicking on the first link above and scrolling down a bit). I have mentioned this fellowship to a few people in conversations or emails, but I thought it was a good time to spread the word in case anyone who reads this blog is interested.

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Mathsgiving

In the movies, when people gather for Thanksgiving they all go around the table and say what they’re thankful for. Very few of the actual Thanksgiving festivities I have attended have had this feature, but in reality I have only really been celebrating Thanksgiving since I moved to the US (ten years ago). Regardless, I thought it would be appropriate, for my PhD + epsilon Thanksgiving celebration, to write down the things from this past year (math and work-related) that I am thankful for. Continue reading

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