Perhaps contributors could feel free to share, here, the most meaningful thing they experienced at their school in 2017.
Many people are celebrating Christmas today near the pasture in Orange, Texas. Whatever your tradition and endeavors, may you endure and find peace.
We started researching our program's effectiveness (or lack of it) over the early years of students' industry careers.
ReplyDeleteA couple of former students involved in the project came back and gave a powerful talk to the current inmates.
And I'd like to add that "may you endure and find peace" is a lovely phrase.
All the best to Zooze and contributors for 2018!
1) I'm scrupulous to do what I can to argue both sides when politics come up, even if one side seems to me indefensible (I sometimes resort to the canned talking points circulated by the First Order). The students, though, have no such constraints, and by and large, they ridicule and reject TOOTOO, the Temporary Occupant Of The Oval Office. 2) Others disagree, but I like this generation of students personally and in terms of work ethic and global concern, politics aside.
ReplyDeleteWe got a new dean who so far seems genuinely knowledgeable and interested in science! This may not seem like much, but he's the first one like this we've ever had. He sure beats the dishonest malevolent ineptitude we've been subjected to---so far. (I know undergraduates with more extensive publications records than some of our previous deans.)
ReplyDeleteAlso: I learned html in 1995 and promptly set up a web page, which I've been maintaining ever since. (It's now very fancy.) I therefore for many years resisted establishing a LinkedIn page, since I didn't see why I needed to keep two web pages updated. I finally gave in recently, and was immediately surprised to find that over 600 people, mostly former students, wanted to link to me! So maybe it hasn't all been for nothing.
This is personal, but I simply don't know my new school well enough for anything else.
ReplyDeleteSomeone who works here, who I don't know, told me he admired work I'd done elsewhere and wanted to find a way to get my some more money and responsibility for next year. (Money good; responsibility not sure.)
I thought I was being punk'd, but apparently not.
You know I'm old, and if I can squeeze 5 more years out of this fucking career I'd pack it in for good.
I don't know if I can answer the question.
ReplyDeleteOne reason is that my brain no longer works on calendar years. "You mean, you want to know what happened in the second half of 16-17 and the first half of 17-18? What the hell, man?"
The odometer just rolls over at a different place for academics.