acadmeia schmacademia

I am so VERY grateful to be employed and to have health insurance, but my oh my, parts of my profession are utterly bananas. On certain days, I can only laugh about it.

"What if academics know deep down there is nothing new but just really enjoy finding and explaining things."

"I've been out of academia for almost 2 months now and my brain still hasn't figured out that I have a whole weekend in which to do things now and not like 8 hours total to get groceries, meal prep and go to the laundromat, along with good benefits so now we can AFFORD medical care."

"A good dissertation is a done dissertation. A great dissertation is a published dissertation. A perfect dissertation is neither."

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