Academic Garden
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Thoughts on a semester gone by
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Some time in the middle of January, after concluding a three-month long stretch of nearly back-to-back travel (mostly for conferences), I wa...
Sunday, April 7, 2024
On dreaming versus preparing for nightmares
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The other day, a friend, while preparing for a trip to a city in USA, mentioned that he was nervous about the travel. This was surprising to...
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Sunday, March 17, 2024
Tales of a teacher
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A few days ago, I realized that I have now been teaching for 20 years. I taught my first course in the Spring of 2004, as a 23 year old PhD ...
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Sunday, February 25, 2024
Twitter threads (on life choices, long walks, movies and math)
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I do not have many new things to write about from my part of the academic garden. Instead, I would like to put together some of my older X/T...
Sunday, February 18, 2024
The week in "review"
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In the last few posts, I have been sharing thoughts around academic reviews: is research productivity the only criterion that matters to a r...
Sunday, February 11, 2024
On work-travel balance and other matters
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In the early days of this blog, I would sometimes write "random" posts, that is, posts with short snapshots of multiple work-life ...
Monday, December 18, 2023
Tales of a PhD advisor
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A few years ago, I may have achieved a world record of sorts. 60 percent of the students in an advanced course that I was teaching requested...
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