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		<title>Finding balance by force is still finding balance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who&#8217;ve been reading this here blog for any length of time know that a common theme/expressed desire on this blog is for balance. Balance between work and home. Balance between research, teaching, and service. Balance between &#8220;should dos&#8221; and &#8220;want to dos&#8221;. When making resolutions at the start of academic years, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acdalal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266599&amp;post=368&amp;subd=acdalal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are always a few students in my courses each term who come to me at some point during the term unhappy with their progress. Invariably they ask me for tips on how they can succeed in the course. Towards the end of one particular term, when it seemed like I was fielding the question [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acdalal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266599&amp;post=365&amp;subd=acdalal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five (academic) things I&#8217;m thankful for</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 2:30pm the day before Thanksgiving, and about 20 minutes ago my brain decided that we were done working for the day. So before I sign off for a long weekend of low-key relaxation (and football! and running! and Christmas decorating!) with my two favorite people in the world, I wanted to reflect on five [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acdalal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266599&amp;post=360&amp;subd=acdalal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Owning my seniority</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I got the invitation a few months ago to attend the Senior Women Summit at Grace Hopper, I&#8217;ll admit that my first reaction was disbelief. Surely there was some mistake! I&#8217;ve only been officially tenured for just over a year, so how could I possibly be a senior woman in tech? And besides, doesn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acdalal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266599&amp;post=356&amp;subd=acdalal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Week 9 here at Carleton, which means the term is winding down. Students are frantic and frazzled. Faculty are just as, if not more, frantic and frazzled, because we&#8217;re at that point in the term where we realize that the ambitious syllabi we laid out so carefully in September is, in fact, too ambitious. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acdalal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266599&amp;post=351&amp;subd=acdalal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in interdisciplinary teaching</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, a good friend and colleague, who&#8217;s in the Psychology department, and I were talking about our mutual interest in human-computer interaction (HCI). Neither of us works in that field, but both of us wanted to explore the field beyond just a surface interest. We should team-teach a class in HCI, we joked. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acdalal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266599&amp;post=340&amp;subd=acdalal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five mistakes I always make the first day back at school</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wearing heels. I don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s the most comfortable pair of heels I own, or if I can normally spend hours and hours on my feet in them. After a summer of wearing nothing but sandals and flip-flops, any &#8220;real&#8221; shoes mean P A I N . And with opening convocation later and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acdalal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266599&amp;post=336&amp;subd=acdalal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 things that helped me survive summer, 2011 edition</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of the past two summers, ProfHacker&#8217;s contributors all posted on 5 things (technologies, activities, foods, etc) that got them through the summer; their 2011 lists were just posted. Last summer I did the same. So, continuing that tradition (can it be a tradition after only 2 years?), here are the 5 things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acdalal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266599&amp;post=333&amp;subd=acdalal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 5 Stages of Conference Paper Writing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(with apologies to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross) 1. Denial.  This is going to be the best paper we&#8217;ve ever written! It&#8217;ll be paradigm-changing and highly cited! The data is so awesome it&#8217;s going to be a breeze to write! We totally have enough time to whip this into shape and send it out. 2. Anger.  What do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acdalal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266599&amp;post=328&amp;subd=acdalal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of language and framing, part eleventy-thousand</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a fascinating blog post up today called &#8220;Girls Go Geek&#8230;Again&#8221; by Anna Lewis at Fog Creek Software. The post is wide-ranging and starts off by talking about the decline of women in computing since the mid-1980s: In 1987, 42% of the software developers in America were women. And 34% of the systems analysts in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acdalal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9266599&amp;post=322&amp;subd=acdalal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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