Before the start of every semester, I make a list of my ongoing tasks, my priorities, and plan my weekly template. Based on these, I develop my goals (or semester priorities) for the semester. Spring 2022 is starting off with…
I've been meaning to write a post on the first year as a new professor since 2014, when I was a new professor and read a very timely post from "tenure, she wrote" on what it is like to be…
Just like every year, I am here with my list of goals :) For reference, here are my goals for 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, and 2021 (looks like I forgot to blog about my goals for some years). As last…
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 spent less time working in 2021 (about 2325 hours) than in 2020 (2620 hours) but more than in 2019 (2176 hours). If you look at the monthly totals, you can also see that I took time off in May…
We've reached the end of another pandemic year. I wasn't particularly ambitious when I wrote my list of 2021 goals, but I counted on being healthy. I've had a number of health issues throughout the entire year and then my…
Just like every year, I'm making my list of favorite albums of the year. Without much further ado, here is my selection: 10. Angele - Nonante-cinq Earworm of the year 9. Thy Catafalque - Vadak More black metal and less…
As always, I like to reflect on the books I read in a given year. In 2021, I read a fair amount of books as usual. I read a bit less of nonfiction than usual, and listened to a larger…
I recently went through the process at TU Delft to get promoted from the first level of assistant professor to the next (and last) level. One aspect of the tenure and promotion procedures at TU Delft is that tenure does…
Fall 2021 was a particularly hard semester for me: I started wearing arch supports as I was dealing with a hip and knee injury, then I broke my toe, then we were all quarantined as my husband and daughter had…
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