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.
I frequently get questions from friends and colleagues "how do you do it all? Tell me how you do it!". Well, spoiler alert - I DO NOT DO IT ALL. Want to learn some quick and easy academic mom hacks to help make life just a tad easier? Read on! These are some hacks I have followed the last ~6 years or so since starting as a faculty member and achieving tenure, that have helped me achieve the facade of "doing it all".
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