It’s time for this year’s State of the Tools. Things are a bit in flux this year, as I’m working on transitioning my endpoints from Windows to macOS, but I’ll run down where I’m at and where I’m headed; there have also been substantial changes in our personal computing infrastructure.
I’m starting to do some speaking again, and now that Japan has opened back up for travel, I’m very pleased to be giving a couple of talks later this month:
I’ll have a little time around the edges of my trip, so if you are in Tokyo and would like to connect, send me an e-mail and let’s see what we can arrange. Or say hi at IBIS!
As long as I have been teaching, I’ve used a “late day” policy in most of my classes. I designed this policy after learning about universal course design while taking Preparing Future Faculty at the University of Minnesota, but I don’t think I’ve ever publicly written down the motivations and design of this policy. So here you go!
A few years ago, early in my first faculty position, I wrote about how I tracked academic work. I still implement the core ideas of that piece, but most of the details have changed; I thought now, after working on my first annual review after applying for tenure, would be a good time to write an update.
If we can aggressively simplify for a moment, earning a Ph.D has three primary components:
There are some other things in each program, such as courses and qualifiers, but this is the heart of what earns the degree.
But what is that mysterious “dissertation”?