Blame Bashir for this one. In a previous post, I talked about how I wasn’t yet free of academia. How it’s still got hooks in me, in the form of papers that need to be published, and that won’t get published until I get them out. Bashir noted that it was like Borg. […]
Remember that harebrained idea I had about running one half marathon per month for a year? At first, it didn’t seem real. I worried I would laze out of it. Then I registered for the first six…and I still worried I would laze out of it. I told myself I couldn’t. I’ve already spent too […]
Deciding to leave academia can be a wrenching experience. Sometimes, people who decide to leave are bitter and angry to their core. Other times, they are sad, with constant feelings of failure. And many, many times, they feel lost. When I first really seriously thought of getting out of academia, I remembered an ‘alternative careers’ […]
Yesterday, I saw something about a “boys only” program at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. I wasn’t thrilled. I tweeted. And it turned out, I didn’t have complete information…and that further information made the issue even more complex. When it is ok to separate boys and girls? And to what end? Will this help […]
As I started planning this harebrained idea of mine, I had several people contact me. Often they ask me to come to where they are to run races. But they also often include something about how they’ll run, but they can’t possibly keep up with me. This is really strange. I’m not a fast runner. […]
There are some posts that punch you in the gut a little. Lately, for me, those posts have been about life in academia. About ‘the system’. Whether or not it failed people. This post was one of them. It hit me hard. But it made me think, too. The post, “The afternoon I decided to […]
A lot of people outside academia don’t realize how slow the gears grind. Projects have to be conceived, funded, performed, written up. Submitted, rejected, submitted again, rejected with revisions, resubmitted, and then, finally, published. In an ideal world, the process takes months. In reality…it can take years. I’m out of academia. But I am not free […]