To continue my series of "mistakes" (and please, do take these with a grain of salt), I have also listed some common pitfalls of postdocs: Not knowing what to get out of the experience: When you opt to do a…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
I've updated my semester master task list. Per class prepare syllabusprepare exams and solutionsput everything ready in D2Lfor new class: plan time to prep class Planning reflect on previous semester: time spent - do I need to change weekly template?Reflect…
My Spring 2023 weekly template is very much in line with my Fall 2023 template. Here are a few things that are different: I am trying to fit my work hours between 8am and 4pm (to follow a 9-5 schedule),…
At the beginning of every semester, I first make my task list for the upcoming semester. In this task list, I review my upcoming deadlines and responsibilities in terms of research projects, graduate students, papers to write, service responsibilities, teaching,…
In our previous post, we learned about why overwork is so prevalent in academia. Today, we are going to focus on activities you can do to achieve better work-life balance. Note, however, that the reasons for overwork are structural. While…
Just like every year, I am here with my list of goals 🙂 For reference, here are my goals for 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021 , and 2022 (looks like I forgot to blog about my goals for some years).…
To review 2022, I made an overview of the highlights of each month. This is what 2022 looked like for me: January: work on collaboration with Danish colleaguesFebruary: lots of research: analysis report of experiments, programming new SFRC model, doctoral…
In Fall 2022, I spent a lot of time teaching and I had a few relatively long workweeks - the longest taking 60h45min. I also "lost" time away from work with the move, and had two international trips during this…
In comparison to 2020 and 2021, I have spent less time working in 2022. It's been a constant battle against my tendency to overwork, but things have improved a bit. There is still overwork, but at least I'm going in…
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