Time use: King’s College vs Whitman

It’s been several weeks since I promised a blog post on time use. Somehow I overcommitted myself with scholarly projects and travel – in fact, I drafted this post at 8 pm British Summer Time, in an airplane over the Hudson Bay. But that is a story for another time. Inspired by a conversation at the Liberal Arts CS (LACS) Consortium annual meeting last month, I decided to look at my time use during my first 6 months at King’s College, Cambridge. That led naturally to a comparison with my last 6 months at Whitman before leaving on sabbatical. I’ll start with Whitman, where my time allocations are probably more familiar to US colleagues. Then I’ll explain what’s different at King’s. Spring 2025: Whitman College A typical day at Whitman was bracketed by dropping off my daughter at school just before 8 am and picking her up from afterschool care by 5:30 pm. Most days, I would eat breakfast and lunch at my desk – too much to do in between. On Wednesdays I often attended the lunchtime…