My thanks for all the well0wishes concerning my announcement of yesterday.
And Professor Bainbridge rightly notes the following:
a senior colleague told me that getting tenure didn’t change anything in your life except that you stopped thinking about tenure. I didn’t believe him, but it turned out to be true. If you’re internalized the norms of teaching and scholarship, you don’t change what you do. You just keep teaching and writing.
Indeed. Plus, now there’s Full Professor to work towards! However, not having to worry about tenure is huge in its own right, to be sure.
