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Lemony Snicket couldn’t even imagine the misfortune. Legitimate sciencer. Molecular Biology PhD student.

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Universities will say with a straight face “sorry we can’t afford to pay grad students more!!” and then spend $1 million on tulips that they rip out after 2 weeks

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TAing an undergrad course this semester. Received multiple emails past 10pm on a Friday night.

Sounds like a Monday problem.

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Meant to tweet this earlier in application season, but my annual reminder to low-income students applying for grad schools: don’t be afraid to ask about application fee waivers! I was able to apply to several more schools than I could afford to just by inquiring.

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If you haven’t grown to spite a paper by the time it’s been through rounds of reviews, is it even ready for publication?

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Getting tired of the “schools need to be more secure” argument

Fine, make schools resemble prisons so children are safe there. But what about the playground? Mall? Place of worship? How many mass shootings will it take for Republicans to realize an unlocked door isn’t the issue?

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People I went to high school with are talking about our 10-year reunion and I refuse to go.

“So what are you doing now?”
“Oh…I’m still in school…”
“Still?”
“Yes.”
“For how much longer?”
“Good question.”

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I mean, if we’re taking the constitution verbatim, the 2nd amendment states “a well regulated Militia…the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” and doesn’t explicitly protect guns, so our militia better start lifting

I mean, if we’re taking the constitution verbatim, the 2nd amendment states “a well regulated Militia…the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” and doesn’t explicitly protect guns, so our militia better start lifting
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TW: NYU/Sabatini
Pressuring someone whose career you have authority over into having sex is, simply put, rape. Nothing about that is consensual.

So, NYU Langone Health, way to out yourselves as supporting a rapist.

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Academia be like: “what do you mean you don’t understand what the purpose of hiring an Assistant Vice Dean for Chancellor’s communications to the Provost of the School of Arts and Sciences is? It’s right there in the title.”

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Advice to recruits on these revisit weekends: your “back-up” school might be someone’s dream school, so maybe be cognizant of what you say.

Oh, and Ivy League schools aren’t inherently better, especially if you spend your entire graduate career in a miserably toxic environment.

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Students: “I don’t want to stay in academia, I’ll go to industry.”
Old PIs: “sell-outs!”
Students: “okay, then how about we raise post-doc salaries to a more livable wage?”
Old PIs: “the AUDACITY of such a request. YOU can’t be well-compensated because I wasn’t 30 years ago!!!”

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LinkedIn is fun because it’ll be like “Congratulate Sam on their work anniversary” but the anniversary is really the beginning of their 8th year of a PhD program and they’re actually dying inside.

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