Maybe if I am perfect, I will finally convince everyone that I deserve my place in academia.
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Maybe if I am perfect, I will finally convince everyone that I deserve my place in academia.
Read moreThere 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.
Read moreFeelings 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?
Read moreIt was August 2015 and I was a newly minted PhD candidate when I found out I was being cut from my lab.
Read moreWhat 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.
Read more“Academia is supposed to be hard,” “science takes sacrifice,” “if you can’t hack it now, maybe you don’t belong.”
Read moreTomorrow 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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