Faculty Experiences

What's funny is that some of my students now coax and encourage me to finish my research. The students whom I always guide and help are also the ones who guide and help me with my study. I thank…

I feel I now face an extremely complex social situation, realizing that as humans, we have let part of our humanity go through the grind of daily life.

I have spent the majority of my working life as a lecturer in a mid-ranking university, and I’ve been reasonably successful at my job. However, I didn’t particularly have a good time while doing…

This post expresses my frustration; as right now, I feel pretty tired. And my research students form a significant area of my concerns. I am an associate supervisor who did not freely choose to…

Of all of my experiences, I have found that teaching in college was the hardest because of my age. I was 29 when I became an adjunct professor, but I did not look a day…

When it comes to teaching, I want to be good. No, I want to be great! I want to inspire the same motivation in my students that I received from my own teachers. There's…

Last summer, I was awarded tenure and it felt amazing. It was one of the proudest and most significant moments in my life thus far. After the warm and fuzzy feeling…

Interruptions are the bane of my existence. When I’m in the zone working on something, it is very disruptive to be interrupted. As I do most of my work in my office on campus, and my office is…

Earlier this year, I gave birth to a baby boy and two months later I started my new position as an Assistant Professor in biology at San Francisco State University. My husband and I were both at…

I had the hardest semester of my life but I got something great out of it. I started a new job this fall – one of my top-choice careers, at one of my top-choice…