Only a few more days left in November. A few more days to remind people about the two cancers that took my beloved husband in 2008 and my dear mother in 2010. My relationship with cancer has always been as a bystander. I watch a relative or friend grapple with imposed changes the disease brings….
Month: November 2016
Work/Life Balance—A Second Lesson at IBM
Bob Farley called me into his office to tell me to go home. ‘Twas Christmas Eve at IBM and the halls were fairly quiet. With few remaining vacation days left, I needed to work on Christmas Eve; I planned to drive down to Maryland the next day. I was working in the lab when he…
Junior Mechanic: Some Hands-On Engineering
I knew how to change a car’s oil before I knew how to change gears. When I was 14 years old, my dad came to me: “Anne, you’re going to be learning to drive in a couple of years. Time for you to learn about how a car works.” He had an ulterior motive–he needed…
What’s Your Purpose?–A Graduate School Story
Though we shared a similar reaction, Jim Quinlan and I responded differently to filing our graduate school applications. When we met during our Ph.D studies at Carnegie Mellon University, the topic arose as we started the “how did you get here” conversation. We attended different schools for our bachelors’ degrees in electrical engineering. He graduated…