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On April 12 in Baseball History...​
  • 1909 - Philadelphia's Shibe Park, the first steel-and-concrete structure built for baseball, is dedicated.

  • 1955 - In their first game at Kansas City, the transplanted Athletics defeated the Detroit Tigers 6-2 at Municipal Stadium.

  • 1965 - Richie Allen hit the first home run in the Houston Astrodome, off Bob Bruce, as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Astros 2-0.

  • 1966 - A crowd of 50,671 welcomed the Braves to Atlanta, but Willie Stargell spoiled the opener with a two-run homer in the 13th inning, giving the Pirates a 3-2 victory.

  • 1980 - Cecil Cooper and Don Money each hit grand slams in the second inning of Milwaukee's 18-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox.

  • 1992 - Boston's Matt Young pitched eight no-hit innings at Cleveland but lost 2-1 in the opener of a doubleheader. In the second game, the Indians managed only two hits off Roger Clemensto set a major league record for fewest hits (2) in a doubleheader.

  • 1994 - Scott Cooper hit for the cycle and drove in five runs, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 22-11 victory over the Kansas City Royals.

Baseball Birthdays on April 12... ​


Baseball Deaths on April 12... ​

 
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4/12 Holidays

National Only Child Day
National For Twelves Day
National Colorado Day
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day
National Licorice Day
National Big Wind Day

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Volprofch05 said:
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Falcons trade a 5th round pick for Jeff Okudah
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taylorvol said:
If you don’t mind…

Thanks but it’s actually for my daughter. I’m encouraging her to consider going for her a PhD as she has a passion for teaching.
Same question for @Volprofch05 What do you like best about being a Professor? And least…
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Hey TV, sorry for the delay, gonna be a hectic end to the semester!!!! Here are my comments:

1. Regarding considering grad school: if she is in an area that is research heavy, then I would recommend trying to get involved in undergraduate research. This looks great on the resume and provides valuable skills. Plus, as an undergraduate students can try out different areas of research and decide what suits them. When you start research in grad school you are locking yourself into a career path, but undergrad allows students to experiment and see what they like. She could pursue this by reaching out to faculty members to inquire about research opportunities with them/in their labs. Students can start early with this (I’ve had high school students and freshmen work in my lab before they have taken organic). As previously stated it’s also helpful to begin looking into graduate programs early to look for a good fit of interests.

2. Positives of my job:
- Flexibility: I have a ton of work to do but I can do it in my own schedule since I’m my own boss.
- Variability: I have a lot of different things I have to work on, which keeps things interesting (research, teaching, mentoring/training, outreach, service, recruiting, patents, on it goes).
- Working with students: it is rewarding to help students accomplish their goals and position them to be successful. On the other hand it doesn’t work out for all students, some become bitter, which can be sad.
- You basically spend your life in college, enough said
- Particularly at a place like UT, the environment: colleagues, students, athletics, local people who love UT, etc, makes for rich experiences.

3. Negatives
- A big challenge is the amount of responsibility faculty members have. In many regards (IMO) you are largely responsible for the success of students you work with. In particular, my job is mostly research where PhD students train in my lab. Those students need their research to work to be successful and I have to come up with those ideas continually. Always worried these idea won’t work, which will put my students behind the 8-ball. Also, research is extremely competitive with many other brilliant people around the world who could ‘scoop’ you at any moment. Lots of stuff has already been done. Plus, you have to obtain funding to support your work, which is extremely challenging and stressful, particularly before tenure.
- As @Volstylexx pointed out, you have to go where the jobs are and often don’t have a lot of options. I was very lucky to end up at UT (moreso than I knew at the time). But, I will say that even if a school isn’t in an ideal place, usually university cities/towns tend to be pretty cool places.
- As a faculty member, you have your work reviewed by other faculty, who are often overly critical, competitive, and fairly unbalanced people who may not have their priorities straight (workaholics)
- As previously mentioned by volstylexx, faculty members are often not very appreciated, i.e., you bust your tail to help students and then they still complain about you or you try hard to help students succeed when they don’t put in that much effort themselves.

That being said the positives definitely outweigh the negatives in my mind.

I do think it’s important to think about the balance of research/teaching that is of interest. There is everything from 100% research to 100% teaching out there and everything in between. I like a mixture of both as the research is intense while I find teaching keeps me grounded and gets me off the roller coaster.

Sorry for writing a novel, but that should learn people to NEVER ask faculty members their opinion on their job!!!!!! Hope this helps though.
 
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Volprofch05 said:
Hey TV, sorry for the delay, gonna be a hectic end to the semester!!!! Here are my comments:

1. Regarding considering grad school: if she is in an area that is research heavy, then I would recommend trying to get involved in undergraduate research. This looks great on the resume and provides valuable skills. Plus, as an undergraduate students can try out different areas of research and decide what suits them. When you start research in grad school you are locking yourself into a career path, but undergrad allows students to experiment and see what they like. She could pursue this by reaching out to faculty members to inquire about research opportunities with them/in their labs. Students can start early with this (I’ve had high school students and freshmen work in my lab before they have taken organic). As previously stated it’s also helpful to begin looking into graduate programs early to look for a good fit of interests.

2. Positives of my job:
- Flexibility: I have a ton of work to do but I can do it in my own schedule since I’m my own boss.
- Variability: I have a lot of different things I have to work on, which keeps things interesting (research, teaching, mentoring/training, outreach, service, recruiting, patents, on it goes).
- Working with students: it is rewarding to help students accomplish their goals and position them to be successful. On the other hand it doesn’t work out for all students, some become bitter, which can be sad.
- You basically spend your life in college, enough said
- Particularly at a place like UT, the environment: colleagues, students, athletics, local people who love UT, etc, makes for rich experiences.

3. Negatives
- A big challenge is the amount of responsibility faculty members have. In many regards (IMO) you are largely responsible for the success of students you work with. In particular, my job is mostly research where PhD students train in my lab. Those students need their research to work to be successful and I have to come up with those ideas continually. Always worried these idea won’t work, which will put my students behind the 8-ball. Also, research is extremely competitive with many other brilliant people around the world who could ‘scoop’ you at any moment. Lots of stuff has already been done. Plus, you have to obtain funding to support your work, which is extremely challenging and stressful, particularly before tenure.
- As @Volstylexx pointed out, you have to go where the jobs are and often don’t have a lot of options. I was very lucky to end up at UT (moreso than I knew at the time). But, I will say that even if a school isn’t in an ideal place, usually university cities/towns tend to be pretty cool places.
- As a faculty member, you have your work reviewed by other faculty, who are often overly critical, competitive, and fairly unbalanced people who may not have their priorities straight (workaholics)
- As previously mentioned by volstylexx, faculty members are often not very appreciated, i.e., you bust your tail to help students and then they still complain about you or you try hard to help students succeed when they don’t put in that much effort themselves.

That being said the positives definitely outweigh the negatives in my mind.

I do think it’s important to think about the balance of research/teaching that is of interest. There is everything from 100% research to 100% teaching out there and everything in between. I like a mixture of both as the research is intense while I find teaching keeps me grounded and gets me off the roller coaster.

Sorry for writing a novel, but that should learn people to NEVER ask faculty members their opinion on their job!!!!!! Hope this helps though.
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I sincerely appreciate your thoughtful response. All great points and very interesting. Thanks to you and @Volstylexx for letting me pick your brains. 😃🍊👊😃🍊🍊
 
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firestorm said:
What early MLB season team is a surprise to you?

For me it’s the Pirates because they’re playing pretty good including they did hit a 3 run homer yesterday to defeat the Astros.
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I will say the Arizona Diamondbacks, who lead the NL West, instead of the vaunted Saint Diego Friars and The Angels Dodgers.
 
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