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Time to get back to work.

Posted in Blogging, Productivity, Stress on June 16, 2010 | Comments Off

Apologies for the long absence; the spring semester involved a change of my day job and teaching 3 classes.  I didn’t touch my dissertation or really anything but what needed to be done for my job or my courses.  Now that I’ve more or less recovered (yes, it really did take a month) I will [...]

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Perspective: Useful thing that…

Posted in Academic life, Dissertation, Graduate school, Productivity, Psychology, Stress, Teaching on October 4, 2009 | Comments Off

Often we are told to take a step back from things to gain some perspective.  It’s very hard when you are in the thick of things, particularly all-consuming things like a dissertation. This week, however, I got some perspective.  In order to enhance my qualifications for the classes I’m already teaching, I signed up for [...]

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Laser-sharp focus reduces stress

Posted in Academic life, Productivity, Stress, Teaching on September 27, 2009 | Comments Off

We live in a world with a wealth of things to distract us: The internet and all the amazing information it brings to our door RSS feeds Facebook and social networking sites YouTube Wikipedia A new TV season starting up Books and/or magazines on every possible topic Free education via things like Open Courseware or [...]

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Graduate student work day and stress

Posted in Productivity, Stress on January 2, 2009 | Comments Off

You may recall my earlier posts about my graduate student work day, in which I planned out, hour by hour, how I would make everything fit.  Unfortunately this was a very hard schedule to keep up at times, and sometimes resulted in more stress when I couldn’t meet the schedule. The schedule isn’t getting any [...]

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