Get a Life, PhD

It happens to the best of us. We wake up. We go to the computer. We intend to write. Two hours later, we have put 0 words on the page. What ...

Time is our most valuable resource, and we must be careful with how we spend it. This is particularly true when you are on the tenure track ...

Are you an academic who works more than 40 hours a week ? Would you like to work fewer hours ? If you answered “yes” to both of these questi...

At the end of each annual year, I like to step back and take stock of what I have accomplished during the year. This permits me to acknowled...

How do you plan to spend the upcoming holidays? No matter how busy your Fall semester was nor how busy your Spring semester will be, one o...

Do you want to publish an Op/Ed? I do! I have a deep yearning to open up the New York Times and find my name next to a provocative headline...

After spending years – sometimes nearly a decade – in the quest for tenure, it can be hard to figure out what to do once you receive that go...