Maybe if I am perfect, I will finally convince everyone that I deserve my place in academia.
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A Framework for Coping with Loss in Graduate School
There were no how-to articles or university guidelines for dealing with such a catastrophic loss, and I found myself irrationally wondering if I was doing something wrong.
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I Am Not An Imposter
Feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt had managed to seep their way into my professional and personal lives, and I found myself questioning everything. Would I ever finish my PhD? Was it just a matter of time before everyone saw me for the fraud that I really was?
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Dissociating My Self-Worth from My Research
It was August 2015 and I was a newly minted PhD candidate when I found out I was being cut from my lab.
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Do what you love and make it worthwhile
What is your passion? For me, it’s music. But when I got to college, there wasn’t a place for someone like me, a STEM major, to play music for fun.
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Addressing my mental health issues saved my scientific career
“Academia is supposed to be hard,” “science takes sacrifice,” “if you can’t hack it now, maybe you don’t belong.”
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You are not alone: mental health resources for women in STEM
Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day, and we want to open up a conversation about mental health, especially for women in STEM.
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