Monday, September 5, 2011

So, what is it that you do, exactly?

Today I:
* Moved a few dishes that were left over from yesterdays conference to my office and sent an e-mail to the caterers about it
* Comforted one of the tutors, who is having trouble deciding what to do for her bachelors thesis
* Sent an e-mail to the first year students with links and recommendations from yesterday
* Scheduled two lecturers for my "Introduction to informatics" course.
* Spoke with one of the professors about a possible curriculum change
* Had a talk with the vice dean about how best to accomodate the change.
* Counseled three masters level statistics students about organizational matters
* Found a cardboard box for the caterers so they could take the dishes away.
* Spoke with another professor about the curriculum change
* Talked with the head of the institute about an idea to teach high-school students a programming course with the same materials as we have for our first years.
* Uploaded new course plans to the institute website, which I had technical problems with and in the end the institute IT person had to do it for me.
* Helped a first year student figure out what extra courses to take for this and the next semester
* Supervised one of my to-be bachelors students
* Re-scheduled the time when I was going to start helping students with course content.
* Turned out that the uploaded files still didn't go up correctly, so I had to exchange a few more e-mails.
* Had a talk with study systems specialists to resolve the fact I had still not been made the program manager.
* Had a brief discussion with the program manager for mathematics courses and sent an e-mail to the statistics one - both about a single EAP.
* Spoke with the lecturer holding the upcoming course about the said curriculum change
* Patched the curriculum documents to reflect the change.
* Stopped by the defense session for the internships of masters students
* Given a 15-minute interview
* Spent an hour with the vice dean discussing the curriculum change
* Spent half an hour on marketing ideas for UT Science school.
* Reviewed a homework statement sent to me by a guest lecturer in one of my courses.

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