Sabbatical, Week One

While my teaching load is high (usually 2 lectures and 3 labs a semester ~80-90 students), I do enjoy the regularity of it. This semester, however, I’m on sabbatical until June. The pressure is on to make it a productive one, but I still want to include time for reading and reflection. The weird thing about sabbatical is how unmoored you can get from a schedule. Hopefully a weekly tally will let me take stock and show where I might improve for the next week. In typical Promotion and Tenure language, here’s what I did the week of 1/12/2015 – 1/16/2015

Scholarship

• Set up 3TB RAID 5 array on my workstation, got Ubuntu installed
• Read through notes and procedures from project I started 8/2014
• Ordered parts for new PC to run MinION software
• Scheduled meetings with my senior research students

Service

• Held weekly Skype mentoring session with my S.M.A.R.T team
• Taught a Data Carpentry workshop at Cornell 1/15 & 1/16
• Stood for election to the Software Carpentry Foundation

Other

• Constructed two of these window inserts as a test run
• Completed most of the assignments for The Data Scientist’s Toolbox course

Goal for this week: read more. I probably should commit to #365papers, but I already feel behind on that. We’ll see.