{"id":333,"date":"2008-08-19T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2008-08-19T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:11:29","slug":"where-did-the-summer-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/19\/where-did-the-summer-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did the summer go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer seems to have been far shorter than previous summers.  I start teaching next week, and it seems so unfair:  I want my summer back!  I think the fault is partially the conferences I went to (CPAIOR in May, IFORS in July, and MIP in August) broke up the summer too much, so I never got the multiple weeks in a row to get things done.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, it turned out to be a reasonably productive summer, at least in terms of things I could check off my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rememberthemilk.com\">Remember The Milk<\/a> lists (I am an enthusiastic, but sporadic,  follower of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidco.com\/\">Getting Things Done<\/a> approach to organizing one&#8217;s life).  So, in the interest of letting people know what faculty do when they are not teaching, here is what got checked off since I put in my final course grades in early May:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 journal referee reports<\/li>\n<li>14 conference paper reports<\/li>\n<li>3 promotion\/tenure letters<\/li>\n<li>2 prize nominations<\/li>\n<li>6 papers handled in some way as journal Associate Editor<\/li>\n<li>2 prize committees chaired and completed<\/li>\n<li>3 conferences attended<\/li>\n<li>3 conference presentations<\/li>\n<li>4 professional society reports\/presentations<\/li>\n<li>1 university presentation<\/li>\n<li>1 other presentation<\/li>\n<li>29 OR blog posts<\/li>\n<li>83 trips across campus for an espresso<\/li>\n<li>1 computer upgraded<\/li>\n<li>1 baseball game attended<\/li>\n<li>1 elephant touched<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus research moved on (one student ready to graduate next week), though I need to make more time for that (I think any professor would much rather have &#8220;3 papers completed and submitted&#8221; than that mess above).  And <a href=\"http:\/\/alexandertrick.blogspot.com\">Alexander<\/a> is hitting a baseball much better!  So overall, not a bad summer, but I would like it to last a few more weeks!<\/p>\n<p>For another take on the things faculty do, particularly in the summer, be sure to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/science-professor.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/overcommitteed.html\">FemaleScienceProfessor<\/a> blog (and thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/book-by-femalescienceprofessor.html\">My Biased Coin<\/a> for pointing that out!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer seems to have been far shorter than previous summers. I start teaching next week, and it seems so unfair: I want my summer back! I think the fault is partially the conferences I went to (CPAIOR in May, IFORS in July, and MIP in August) broke up the summer too much, so I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/19\/where-did-the-summer-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where did the summer go?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}