The Inhale Thread !

[apl68]

Congratulations, filologos!

[Langue_doc]

I defended my dissertation last week! The paperwork is signed. All I have to do is submit the final PDF to my university's online repository.

Congrats!

[RatGuy]

I defended my dissertation last week! The paperwork is signed. All I have to do is submit the final PDF to my university's online repository.

Huzzah!

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

I defended my dissertation last week! The paperwork is signed. All I have to do is submit the final PDF to my university's online repository.

Congrats!

[Puget]

I defended my dissertation last week! The paperwork is signed. All I have to do is submit the final PDF to my university's online repository.

Congrats Dr. Filologos!

[hmaria1609]

Congrats! Treasured forum member Mamselle would've had a party going at the pool and clubhouse for newly tenured folks.

[AmLitHist]

I was very pleasantly surprised and encouraged by a virtual appointment with my new dean this morning. I wasn't completely dreading it, but it involved a plagiarizing student from summer who'd filed a grade appeal; I and my chair had denied it on solid grounds, but in the past, our deans have been happy to overturn such denials. This one agreed with my evaluation and grading of the student; if anything, she even more hardcore than I am!

It's nice to have a dean who has your back. This is only the second good dean I've had in 20+ years here; I hope it's a good sign of things to come as I head toward retirement in the coming years.

[AmLitHist]

Tomorrow is Professional Development Day, and I've already had my leave request approved (definitely worth burning the sick day). All weekend I toyed with the idea of burning another and taking today off from my MWF virtual lecture classes.

I unintentionally overslept, got up and took a shower, then thought, "Well, let's see what I can come up with for today." (I've changed the order of some materials this time through, so I couldn't just pull out an old set of notes and slides to use wholesale.) I played around with putting a PPt deck together from scratch about 30 minutes before class time and decided, what the heck, let's do it. 

It turned out to be the best lecture I've given so far this fall. That's what 25 years of teaching the same classes does for you! I need to do this more often, rather than getting lazy and just recycling old PPts all the time.  My last-minute versions almost always go well.