Without further ado, I bring you one of our exemplary experts, Jill Schmidlkofer!
FACT 1: What is your area of expertise?
Statistics – I got my M.S. in 1974, when Statistics was practically
in its infancy. (I took a Multiple
Regression course using a four-function calculator.) Now I feel like a rock star because
Statistics has gotten almost sexy.
FACT 2: What is your workspace like?
A lawn chair in the living room, with a gel pad. There's a big basket under the computer table for Buttons the Cat. Very cozy. My window looks out on the lake and the golf course. Heaven on earth.
FACT 3: What do you do when you’re not authoring textbook solutions?
Sleep.
FACT 4: Tell us something exciting that has happened in your life
this week!
My granddaughter smiled and cooed at me. She is 6 weeks old. There's space in Buttons the Cat's wicker
basket for her when she comes for a visit.
I don't think Buttons will like sharing.
FACT 5: Why do you like working with Chegg?
I like working for a company whose name is recognized by virtually
everyone under the age of 25. The
company is vibrant, forward-thinking, and its vision is inspiring! Carrie and Ryan do a spectacular job taking
care of all of us solutions authors. That is the best part of the job, besides the paycheck.
SOMETHIN' EXTRA: And, because Jill always likes to go above and beyond, she's offering her one top trick for solution authoring:
I always re-read my solutions just before I send them to
Carrie. I look for typos, format errors,
delimiter issues (!), hanging indents, boxed answers, and separation of steps
in the problem solution. I make sure that, if I did a copy/paste from an earlier problem with a similar solution, that I
have changed all the numbers to those in the current problem. I re-read the problem holistically to make
sure that the flow of the explanation is good. It takes maybe a minute or two per problem, but it pays off big
time. I usually make some kind of change
to about 80% of the problems when I do this review.
