Balancing kids + academic faculty life
In 2011, I started as a tenure-track faculty member department at a prestigious university having no idea what I was doing. I have always loved writing and always planned to start a blog to document the challenges and triumphs of achieving tenure as a young female in a male-dominated department. And then I had a kid, and then I had another kid, and before I knew it I actually achieved tenure. And then had another kid. In this blog I will write about today, and also recount the best and worse of times as I progressed through my career and continue to figure out how this all works. My background and training is in epidemiology, so I will use my population health lens and attention to data to embrace the topic. Some posts are ALL mama, and some are more academic, but most are a good mix of aca-mama.
What’s crazy is that THIS DID NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. And thank goodness I had remembered that powerful story that had circulated on the Internet a few years ago about this very fact. There is no kicking, screaming, waving of arms and drama. It’s silent. Which makes it even more horrifying because there can be dozens of adults and other kids around and no one can realize the kid needs help.
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