Archive for December 2024

I think I first learned the oxymoron “mandatory fun” when I was an RA. When you work in a large organization, there can be a long list of events that might be classified as mandatory fun at this time of year. Of course, as is true of so many things, one person’s mandatory fun is…

And suddenly, it’s the first week in December. How did that happen? Even though I’ve thought in academic years for most of my life, I still like the idea of taking time at the end of the calendar year to reflect on the months past and those to come. At the first of this year, I…