What do professors do during the summer?

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<p>Do they chill like us or do they do what they normally do (like research, conferences, and academic duties) during the school year just without the teaching? How do they view the summer? Jw</p>

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<p>Some of them teach summer school. My cousin, who’s an academic, is doing research in places he can’t find the time for during the school year.</p>

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<p>You know those spring break videos? Now picture your professors in one of them… :)</p>

<p>Actually, some are teaching, most are doing research or writing that we don’t have time for during the school year, some attend conferences, a few with master’s degrees are taking classes for their PhD at a distant university, many are leading student study tours abroad or doing some travel (often related to their field) on their own, some are doing committee work for the university or preparing reports of some sort, almost everybody is relaxing and recharging a bit.</p>

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<p>I was talking to a tenured Psychology professor. He told me he just chills with his wife.</p>

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<p>Lol when I was younger I thought my teachers would just lock themselves in the classroom and wait for the fall to start</p>

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<p>Teaching, researching, frantically trying to get publications—the usual.</p>

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<p>Of course he does. Since he’s tenured he probably doesn’t give a fsck.</p>

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<p>Depends on what kind of professor. For Science, probably research, for arts they probably lack the material and talent to conduct any “research”.</p>

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<p>This sentence doesn’t even make sense…</p>

<p>The answer is work. Actually showing up to a classroom and lecturing is only a small percentage of a prof’s time at work, and if they don’t have a class to teach during the summer, they’ll be assigned lots of other “fun” duties.</p>