Not sure if it's Duo Security of my campus OIT, but someone seriously does not understand what "remember my device" means. :)

You guys - it's gonna be the prettiest test I have ever made. There's Tikz diagrams and like boxes where they can fill in their answers :D

I bet all 200 of them say: OMG this is the most beautiful test ever ;)

I'm really learning a lot of new Latex to write this test. It's a shame that no one - except maybe my TAs - will appreciate it.

Maybe you can help appreciate it Internet :D

Andor | Mon Mothma's Speech YouTube video by Gamerstrix

"The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest." - Mon Mothma, Andor

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK2q...

So thankful to the CA Legislature for their continued support of this incredible program!

Cal-Bridge brings together California’s outstanding higher education systems (CCC, CSU, UC) to build pathways that help talented, diverse students pursue advanced degrees and careers in STEM.

I just figured out how to make and use avatars on Zoom. I'm sure I'm like N years late to the game but here we go.

There's a lot of garbage out there, so getting a couple of minutes of childlike wonder feels good.

I ate my sandwich starting at 11:15am.

One consequence of bringing lunch more is I often ask myself: "Is 10am too early to eat my sandwich?"

In my not bringing lunch era I feel like I would got to 2pm and be like - "yeah I'd better go eat something"

What is happening to my brain and tummy?!?!

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There is a lot of nonsense right now, but I had a really great time at office hours where we talked about conditional probabilities, Bayes' theorem, why my generation was too hard to judge the prequels negatively and I heard a new time-loop theory on BTTF2 that I love
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Yowza - those are some interesting options. And agree that you need to post the final poll results :)

Really hoping for a quiet weekend newscycle. This week was way way too much.

Imma need this timeline to chill out.....

Admin love their metrics, but sometimes, it’s just:
“Did a confused student walk away feeling seen?”

That’s enough.

No regrets about being late. I’ve spent enough years being early to things that didn’t matter.

Was late to a meeting with an admin.

Surprisingly, it was not *for the drama*. But helping a student of mine - a transfer student lost in understanding her new campus rules.

She left feeling less alone & (I hope) less confused.

Not a flex. Just choosing care > optics.

This is my new AY energy.

Do you eat at restaurants?
Immigrants likely prepared your food and washed your dishes.

Do you live in a house or an apartment?
Immigrants likely built your home.

Do you buy groceries?
Immigrants picked your fruits and vegetables.

Now you want to deport immigrants?
Enjoy the pain that follows.

Why do I need to know what a chart of accounts is!!??

Quick question for my fellow professor colleagues, if you are running a student program & use a food vendor that isn't in the campus system are you as faculty supposed to (1) know how to add a vendor to said system, (2) add the vendor to said system?

Just testing something...

Ooh I think you hit the nail on the head!! That is what happened I think!

Started my class with vibes like “I’ve been gone for a year & don’t feel like being here. But prob & statistics are beautiful, so let’s talk strategies.”

At lunch a student stopped me to say they enjoyed class today 🥰 Surprised & grateful.

The institution? Exhausting.
The students? Everything.

Maybe I'm just out of practice from sabbatical....but I kind of need another sabbatical.

It's not the teaching, I love students, its the lack of support.

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading."

Isaac Asimov

I would hope we can have a period when Halloween and Christmas are not both present.

And I always feel so bad for Thanksgiving - like no one cares about it.

Maybe we need like a Labor Day + Thanksgiving holiday mashup like Nightmare Before Christmas....I'll think on it.

Um it's not even Labor Day....and somehow my CostCo has BOTH Halloween and Christmas decorations!??!

A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests The shattering of faith in America's goodness is the hardest part to watch.

"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."

🤬🤬

Tex. Boards Abolish Faculty Senates, Create Toothless Councils Two Houston professors have responded to Texas lawmakers’ assault on independent faculty governance by creating their own faux faculty senate.

Yowza...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Day 2 of being back at work - it's the Applied Mathematics retreat - the first year's are all introducing themselves.

So many outdoor hobbies!! Gardening, sports, hiking, cricket....

As an 'indoor cat' myself, I'm glad that there was at least someone who said video games.

han solo from star wars is pointing at the camera and saying `` see ya . '' Alt: han solo from star wars is pointing at the camera and saying `` see ya . ''

Well - it's the faculty retreat today. I suppose this means that Sabbatical is really over. 😭

This was a year marked with personal challenges and growth.

So much growth that I'm confident I won't immediately volunteer for everything out of guilt for being gone last year! 😎

I was dreading Monday - then 2 people canceled meetings we had scheduled. Suddenly this Monday is not so bad 😎

Remember, every time you cancel a meeting you might just be making someone's day. (Especially on a Monday.)