Latency Numbers Every Professor Should Know


### Latency numbers every professor should know
    Email from student ............................ 20 sec
    Person at office door  ......................... 8 min
    Other interruption ............................ 20 min
    Twitter or something seems really important ... 45 min
    Anxiety about deadlines ........................ 1 hr
    A meeting ...................................... 2 hrs
    A meeting you forgot about ..................... 1 day
    A class to teach ............................... 2 days
    Request to review a paper ...................... 3 days
    Request to write evaluation letter ............. 6 days
    Stuff to grade ................................. 1 wk
    Unsolicited time management advice arrives ..... 2 wks
    Fire alarm clears building ..................... 3 wks
    Travel to conference ........................... 5 wks
    Paper deadline ................................. 6 wks
    Grades due .................................... 16 wks
    Grant proposals due ........................... 26 wks
    Summer ......................................... 1 yr
    Sabbatical ..................................... 7 yrs = 2.208e+17 ns

With apologies to the folks who published latency numbers every programmer should know.


3 responses to “Latency Numbers Every Professor Should Know”

  1. Alex, true!

    Also the unsolicited time management advice tends to fall off over time and you thankfully don’t get it after tenure.