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.
So my kids woke up super early this morning, before the crack of dawn. I got them dressed and ready for school remarkably fast after I promised we could stop by and play on the playground on our walk to school.
Our neighborhood just built a pretty epic new playground and it’s just a few blocks away
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