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LOL. Last week I scheduled three meetings for February 3 (instead of March 3). I wonder who my kids were before that.

My google calendar skills are such that any attempt at employing in a romantic sense would doom me to an eternity of celibacy. Those skills are probably bad enough to erase any past romantic success as well.

Obviously a biologist

All great advice. I’m always shocked how many don’t do assigned problems and think reading the text (or watching videos) is sufficient. No one thinks you can be good at music or sport without practice, so why think that of academics?

Several of my own projects but more that I reviewed. I know I'm supposed to be uber critical as a reviewer but, man, so many great projects (which maybe didn't have a great proposal) that never got funded. Before the recent drop in paylines, there were already a LOT of great stuff not being funded.

Citation 7a in 5 point font: "If the first word you say to me is 'poster' I'll buy you your drink of choice."

I’d prefer it be this way. Put the posters up, don’t cram the schedule, and have done periods where the “presenters” sit comfortably at a table with drinks (type dependent on time of day) where you can go talk to them.

The best evidence of this is how many people write so much knowing how little public reward is likely.

Like many others, loved the Martian and Hail Mary. Didn’t care for Artemis. Hard to compare Martian and Hail Mary as I didn’t read the Martian until after seeing the movie. So very different experience.

This is the society we have. There is no reward but dignity and pride for scholarship and respect for history.

Still, I like to think it would take more than 25k to buy my dignity.

I have either been a student or faculty at 3. I’m sitting in the sun daydreaming that I’m the reason those schools are on there.

US Olympic coverage seems to assume whoever they anoint ahead of time must win. It's unfair to the anointed and it robs us of getting to know the whole lineup so we have some idea who it is who won. I got a little misty watching the Kazakh kid's reaction to his PR. Would like to have known him.

Seeing his reaction to his PR was so, so moving.

Seeing him win? Amazing.

Well, depending on how much wine she’s drinking it could add up. If it were me, I’d just finish the bottle.

My flip comment was a cynical assumption that no such humanity remains. Alas, that is probably incorrect. But it's sure hard to tell most of the time.

I dunno. Replacing every C-suite with LLMs might be stark improvement.

If I wasn't American, the craziest thing about our country wouldn't be the everyday mass shootings or car ownership as a precondition of citizenship, it'd be television ads for prescription medicine.

Seems to me that having an analog clock in the room for an exam containing absolute configuration questions is a huge advantage. #iTeachChem

Socks and sweatpants at 28 wasn’t so great either so I can imagine

It sucks so much. On so many levels.

Lawrence of Sausage

I used to not really cover it or test it but heard from a lot of students that’s it (over)represented on MCAT type tests so put a little back in. And immediately started seeing the students overestimate how important it is.

Exactly.

I think it undoubtedly true that we are "respected like never before". Unfortunately.

Amen

I drank a lot of coffee and ate a lot of pancakes in the diner in Stillwater and was momentarily outraged you got the name wrong before figuring out it was intentional. Did you pick it at random or have you been to Shortcake’s in Stillwater?

To me he never looks comfortable on a field when he’s not coaching.

Do they? I think they just have to be defeated.

I did some chemistry in grad school where being able to work through German papers and methods was very valuable.

BS 1993. Had a one year German requirement. Apparently my grad school eliminated their German requirement in the 80s.