One of my friends was back to teaching within less than five days after having her second and third kids. For the second one, she hired an undergrad to keep an eye on the baby in her office while she taught. For the third, she just put him in a Baby Bjorn. (We all told her that any one of us would be happy to cover her classes for her for a week or so, but she insisted that she come right back. I think one of the older professors had said something to her about deciding what her priorities were when she failed an exam about two weeks after her first kid was born, and she was determined to prove that she could do whatever was expected of her.)
'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Dec 10, 2008 1:26:37 pm PST #5327 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 10, 2008 1:27:55 pm PST #5328 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Why are males ALWAYS Jesus and females ALWAYS Mary? Doesn't anyone else manifest in this fashion?
Looking below the hooded shoulders of that figure, it looks like she visited some Swedish doctors and is spreading her legs wide to give us all a look-see at their handiwork. So, probably not the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Glamcookie - Dec 10, 2008 1:29:33 pm PST #5329 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I think one of the older professors had said something to her about deciding what her priorities were when she failed an exam about two weeks after her first kid was born
Wow, that's assy. I mean, obviously her exam should take precedence over her newborn, right??? Imagine - a mother whose first priority is her child! The very idea!
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Hil R. - Dec 10, 2008 1:32:57 pm PST #5330 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Wow, that's assy. I mean, obviously her exam should take precedence over her newborn, right??? Imagine - a mother whose first priority is her child! The very idea!
It's a math department. This is the kind of stuff that happens. Things are changing, but slowly, and a lot of the older professors don't like it.
tommyrot - Dec 10, 2008 1:34:41 pm PST #5331 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Things are changing, but slowly, and a lot of the older professors don't like it.
I can just picture some old professors sitting around and complaining: "Math doesn't have babies!"
billytea - Dec 10, 2008 1:39:53 pm PST #5332 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I can just picture some old professors sitting around and complaining: "Math doesn't have babies!"
Not according to the old hit song, "That's Multiplication".
Nora Deirdre - Dec 10, 2008 1:45:30 pm PST #5333 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Well, *men* don't have babies, and obviously, men are math professors!
It's tough for women in academia.
beekaytee - Dec 10, 2008 1:53:23 pm PST #5334 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
I totally see the brainy BVM and I'm not remotely Catholic. Huh. I hope the woman gets what she's looking for because, seriously, people will buy anything.
Pix - Dec 10, 2008 2:08:45 pm PST #5335 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
Today is the day I wish I had a katbot. I could get my katbot to go to work, while I stayed home in my jammies eating holiday cookies.
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msbelle - Dec 10, 2008 2:25:44 pm PST #5336 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
why won't the chicken defrost faster? dinner is already late.