I got into my new, empty office today. I read some student files, got confused by all of the acronyms and abbreviations (always a problem at a new school), met my coworkers and some others from around the building, had a tasty sandwich for lunch and an iced coffee and frozen yogurt for snack (at 5. who knows if i will sleep or eat dinner ( Read more... )

After three years of prolonged fretting, I have finally been given permission to redesign my office's website. The current version is hopelessly stuck in the 80s, and it's very difficult to tell what we actually do. I've spent a couple hours so far on the new version, and hopefully it'll be easier to get around, and also easier for others to go in ( Read more... )

i worked back to back 12 hour days (and tomorrow will be 8a-6p), but they were full of good student contact, so i guess i'll survive. tonight was a celebration for the seniors in the mcnair program. mcnair is a federally funded program that helps low income first gen students and students of color get to graduate school. the speaker was a woman who ( Read more... )

babysitter ( Read more... )

This is a slow time in my academic year, so I actually have the chance to not work at home three nights a week, and I think I'm even going to start reading a (work-related but still interesting) book (Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor). I finished reworking my fifty-page handbook that serves as a road map for med school ( Read more... )

It has been a nice visit so far. The med school is definitely a friendly, accessible place, which is counter-intuitive to me, since it's one of the most high-powered schools out there, especially in terms of research. I think in part it's the joy of knowing you're one of the best, and then being able to be somewhat modest about it. That said, ( Read more... )

I was at work from 8:30 to 8:30 today.  In some ways, sure, it was exhausting. In others, it made me reminisce for days in Residence Life, where I'd work some 12 hour days, but I would also work part of it in pajamas, or at least jeans, and I would sleep in and stay up late and talk to students on the steps of the building at midnight, or watch ( Read more... )

Username: nycareers
Password: landmark

Do the career matchmaker, then post the results on LJ.

1. Desktop Publisher
2. Database Developer
3. Librarian
4. Illustrator
5. Operations Research Analyst
6. Website Designer
7. Video Game Developer
8. Computer Animator
9. Business Systems Analyst
10. Health Records Professional ( Read more... )

It's been a busy two weeks at work, since I'm headed back to Chicago next week and need to be sure I'm ready.  Had to write my budget, train some writers for the premed letters, have my performance reviewed, answer about 600 questions about the common applications to med/dental school (seriously -- if I counted the emails, I bet the number would be ( Read more... )

i'm not the one writing a dissertation about math, but i'm the one stuck with numbers and numbers (and letters) in my head.  how many students are applying, how many files are complete, how many letters need to be written and how many do i have to write per week to be done by september 12 and how many students are likely to postpone and not apply ( Read more... )