Dear first-generation graduate students: I’m thinking of you today. Here are some things that I wish someone had told me when I started graduate school. /1
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Replying to @kwazana
Thank you for this. I am the only person in my family to go to graduate school and a someone of working class origin who was educated in private schools via scholarships. This is great advice to those coming up the ranks.
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Replying to @isanchezprado
I'm sending you solidarity. It is really hard to stay psychically intact when you come from working-class or just plain poor origins into the medieval second-son world of academia.
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Replying to @kwazana
I already survived, since I made it through the ladder (I think), but I certainly wished I had your thread back in the day. It is very generous for you to share this advice. Hope to meet you soon in person. I am a big fan.
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Replying to @isanchezprado
I mean surviving the tenure track is a whole other thread, no? At the same time: so much less precarious than and indeed contingent on the adjunct life, we need to always remember. How to think about those together is something I want to write about.
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Thank you for this!
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