There is a post up over on insidehighered.com that discusses how one's choice to work (or not) over Thanksgiving break is reflective of daily work habits. While I don't necessarily agree with the article, it did get me thinking about how I approach the holidays.
I'm grateful for the break from classes. By this time of year, my students are mostly tired of me, and, to be very honest, I'm tired of some of them, too.
In grad school, I rarely took Thanksgiving off. Free parking and empty labs? Sign! Me! Up!
But now? I am a professor!!
Wait....where is the super hero music? (Wow....it's quieter here than my class was last Friday. Tough crowd.)
This week, I plan to work the first half, spend Thursday and Friday with the Puppy and N.A. (and copious amounts of Pie), and then work most of the weekend to finish up grading. Hopefully somewhere in there I will make the time to catch up on the blogosphere.
I would like to think that my students will find time to get some work done over break, too.
...but I'm not going to hold my breath on that one.
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I will not work. Typically during grad school I"d bring some stuff to work on, knowing full well I'd totally ignore it. This year I won't bother with that.
That said, I'll be leaving for my folks' straight from work, so I will have my laptop with me in the unlikely event that I feel inclined to do something.
i'm on the fence this year. i've worked the past several thanksgiving holidays, last year i was writing a grant over the break. this year i sorely need to clean my house, read for fun, read for lab and do a few experiments. that is not necessarily in priority order :)
it all depends on how guilty i feel by friday....
Depends what you define as "work." I am not going in to lab, but I have a research paper due Monday and another one due a week from Monday. I brought home a bunch of papers to read and expect to write at least 5, maybe 10 pages. Does that count?
I need to grade my butt off,plus two PhD students are graduating in a little over 2 weeks so there's a lot of text to go through for their final papers and dissertations. So I will be working but not going to the office (we are officially on state-mandated furlough this Friday anyway).
I expect that I will get more work done over break than my students will, but that is because I have to grade the exams I gave before break and put together at least one final exam. But it is still a "break" because normally I would be doing that grading in a weekend.
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