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Who knew I was still a not-for-profit snob…..

January 16, 2012

I’ve been working for one of the big for-profit universities for the last 2 years.  On the one hand, I …

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A step in the right direction

January 30, 2010

I have a new day job!!!! In higher ed!!!! Let me tell the story…. Anyone who has spent time in …

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Why are you going to grad school anyway?

August 20, 2009

Over the past few years I have focused much of this blog on efficiently getting through graduate school.  Yet as …

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Things I’ve learned about teaching so far….

January 12, 2009

This semester is my second time teaching Intro Stats at the local community college, and I am finding as I …

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Christmas Eve Updates

December 24, 2008

So very much to talk about…. This month has been difficult; at my “day job” (non-academic) I have survived 2 …

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Recovery and Decompression, step 1

November 22, 2008

My November conference is doneMy classes are doneMy work as an RA is doneI am not submitting any more conference …

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*GAPE*

October 23, 2008

Apparently all those presentations/publications pay off.  I was sent a personal invitation to apply for a tenure track position.  Of …

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The marginal utility of different graduate dates

October 9, 2008

2 years ago we refinanced our house in order to renovate our kitchen.  Even after we were done we had …

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Now I remember why I was changing careers….

September 12, 2008

I got a reminder today about the aspects of my current day job that made me want to change careers …

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Job Changes in Progress

June 21, 2008

When it became clear that I wasn’t imminently graduating and moving on to the full-time academic life I had been …

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Stats with Cats: The Domesticated Guide to Statistics, Models, Graphs, and Other Breeds of Data Analysis

Handbook of Educational Data Mining (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Fiction)

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