reading days
May. 10th, 2011 10:40 pmi worked back to back 12 hour days (and tomorrow will be 8a-6p), but they were full of good student contact, so i guess i'll survive. tonight was a celebration for the seniors in the mcnair program. mcnair is a federally funded program that helps low income first gen students and students of color get to graduate school. the speaker was a woman who participated in the program years ago and her talk was really just about who she was and what she experienced from undergrad through postdoc. i will never tire of hearing stories like this, of people getting in and through.
tomorrow i have to write my performance appraisal for this year. my year was filled with things -- took a doctoral class, implemented a new software program for the office, lots of returning student contact, great year for my freshman cohort. not sure what new i want to accomplish next year, but for the first time ever, i've finished my third year somewhere and am actually kind of excited to keep doing the job. by three years everywhere else, i was pretty much done - here, i'm still looking forward to what comes next.
but at the same time, thank goodness it's summer vacation for the kids soon.
tomorrow i have to write my performance appraisal for this year. my year was filled with things -- took a doctoral class, implemented a new software program for the office, lots of returning student contact, great year for my freshman cohort. not sure what new i want to accomplish next year, but for the first time ever, i've finished my third year somewhere and am actually kind of excited to keep doing the job. by three years everywhere else, i was pretty much done - here, i'm still looking forward to what comes next.
but at the same time, thank goodness it's summer vacation for the kids soon.