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anghrainetbh … sometimes pride, guilt, and sunk costs are all that keep me in academia
Tagged: #i respect a lot of academics but there is SO MUCH that i'm disaffected with and have 0 interest in doing #and even stuff i genuinely need to do seems kind of intolerable yet unimportant #i know some of it is brain stuff but some of it is Not
[ETA 4/13/2024: The "brain stuff" was my extreme depression in 2021. I was not exactly wrong about academia, but the impact of COVID-19 + poorly controlled bipolar mood swings + grad school + difficulties of my field made for a particularly grim experience of that year. So that's what the depression tag is about, even when the post is not specifically about depression.]
Tagged: #i respect a lot of academics but there is SO MUCH that i'm disaffected with and have 0 interest in doing #and even stuff i genuinely need to do seems kind of intolerable yet unimportant #i know some of it is brain stuff but some of it is Not
[ETA 4/13/2024: The "brain stuff" was my extreme depression in 2021. I was not exactly wrong about academia, but the impact of COVID-19 + poorly controlled bipolar mood swings + grad school + difficulties of my field made for a particularly grim experience of that year. So that's what the depression tag is about, even when the post is not specifically about depression.]