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(Identity) Crisis in the Academy
Equating the job with one’s identity. It’s a recognizable hazard inherent in many occupations. When you spend so many years training and doing, at some…
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Keys to the Vatican: My Post-Doc Experience
I didn’t find a job right away. Like many recent PhD graduates, I was applying to universities and waiting for responses that never came. It’s…
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Muddling My Way Through Grad School
I wasn’t a very good student. I haven’t forgotten that fact. I did okay at school but held no strong ambitions for higher education. How…
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My Academic Life: An Emotional Investment Worth Giving Up?
If I were to count the years, they would be relatively long and somewhat meaningless in sum. Yet they all add up to tell the…
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