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Had two complete 'career' opposites happen this week: official notification from my department chair that I'm eligible for tenure/promotion this year and.... was mistaken for an undergrad during a seminar that doubled as a PhD program recruiting event.

Taking a record 5 (!) students to the ACS joint regional meeting in ~2 weeks. I think I've reached the point where I can count poster drafts to fall asleep instead of sheep.

First week of the semester and already reminded that scheduling any kind of [reoccurring] meeting with multiple students is an exercise in mental gymnastics.

Hard to believe today's group meeting was the students' summer research presentations. Incredibly grateful to have an enthusiastic group of students. It was such a pleasure to see them grow as researchers this summer. Can't wait to see how projects develop this school year!

Who needs a riveting beach read when you can experience roller-coaster emotions all summer long courtesy of your love/hate relationship with the department's GC-FID

Celebrated the graduation of three Hinze lab members yesterday! Big congrats to Kat, Liz, and Savannah on their BS degrees! Proud of what they've accomplished and excited for the MS and PhD programs they'll be starting this fall.

The Hinze lab was well represented at the campus Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted by the Honors College this past weekend. So much so, that we had our own mini session during the oral presentations! Great job Reagan, Liz, Savannah, and Kat!

A year ago, a group of science faculty across 4 departments were excited to launch a U-RISE T34 program at our institution for what we thought would be a transformative multi-year endeavor. Today, we have to cease activities... I'm heartbroken for our current and (potentially lost) future trainees.

First Organic 2 exam of the semester! Exam stacks are counted, recounted, re-recounted, and the current magic number for extra printed exams (per section) is two. Yes, this may scream assistant prof, but I can't help myself.

Penultimate pre-tenure annual review materials submitted. Absolutely wild that a year from now I'll be submitting my tenure package. Really glad my department included everyone in the discussions when the evaluation documents were revised. The process here is more grey box than black box now...

New year, new semester, new social media (for my sanity)...and never again will I underestimate the time sink of switching to a new organic chemistry textbook.