💬📚 “The graduate program… hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual development.” - Rachel Leventhal-Weiner in Succeeding Outside of the Academy
@kimberlyhirsh My advisors kept telling me this, every time I mentioned a non-scholarly thing I wanted to do (the assistant director of a residence college, go home for Christmas). Eventually it sunk in that my personality was not suited for laser focus. They probably should have booted me after my oral exams, and now I think it would have been less traumatic than working on a never-finished dissertation for two years.
@kimberlyhirsh I was the first of my professor’s students to finish a Ph.D. without getting divorced. But then, I got married only a month before.