I just taught my last class of this academic year. Which means that I'm free until the end of August. Four months of delicious freedom await me. There will be a lot of reading, writing, translation, badminton, cooking, and long leisurely walks while listening to my Kindle. And, of course, a lot of blogging.
Freedom, here I come!
P.S. I don't want anybody to think I dislike teaching. I love it passionately. But my vision of a perfect academic schedule includes a teaching-free semester, dedicated exclusively to research and intellectual growth.
I feel happy, people.
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7 comments:
Congrats!!! My last class is tomorrow. And then, I don't teach until January. I have a sabbatical!!!
Wow! A sabbatical! That's great. Did you just get tenure?
Listening?? I thought a Kindle was only for reading.
No. My institution has competitive sabbaticals, but junior faculty is encouraged to apply (you must have taught for three years previously). They give 10-15 one semester sabbaticals a year , so you are competing with a lot of people. But junior faculty, if the proposal is good, actually has priority. Isn't it great? And actually a great idea as to how to develop young scholars.
Pagan Topologist: oh yes, it also plays music and reads books out loud.
Spanish prof: wow, that's so great. What a fantastic university! I'm not even looking forward to my sabbatical because I can't see that far in the future. :-)
I wish they would build a cheaper Kindle without the audio. I bet it would be lighter and have a longer battery life and a bigger reading area..
Here at UD, every tenure track Assistant Professor is entitled to a sabbatical during the probationary term. It was not the case when I was an assistant professor, 1968-74, but it has been for some time.
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