The jobs that eat your evenings

A student writes the night before the lab report is due. Two exams Thursday, she says. You'd probably say yes, but you can't remember what the syllabus allows or what you told the last student who asked. FacultyAide checks both, drafts the reply in your voice, and puts it in your queue. You read it, change what you'd change, and go to bed.

The internal deadline is tomorrow, and the form wants five years of work in five pages. FacultyAide pulls from your own papers and notes, drafts the narrative sections, and tells you which paper each claim came from. You don't have to paste unpublished work into a public chatbot to get there.

The curriculum committee thread has forty replies and you've read six. FacultyAide boils it down to what's decided and what's open, drafts a position you can live with, and suggests follow-up times that don't land on your teaching days. It can also write the polite no to the review request you don't have room for.

You post a preprint and notice your website still lists last year's committee work. FacultyAide drafts the publication entry, the bio fix, and a short news note. You look it over and publish when you're happy, not when you finally get a free Sunday.