1/ I've talked about my extended post-defense brain fog on here for a while now. Yesterday I realized: That ain't it. I spent the morning working on a very specific task with a well-defined deadline and poof -- my brain worked like it use to and it felt effortless.
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2/ What happened? I think during my
#phdlife I accumulated literally hundreds of projects and a dozen or so really cool ones that I wanted to do when I had time. Now that the phd is done it's pretty obvious: there is never enough time for all that.2 replies 0 retweets 20 likesShow this thread -
3/ Narrowing down all the cool projects I fantasized about doing *during* the phd is an exhausting let down exactly because they were fantasies and now I have to carefully reject them as such.
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Replying to @generativist
Today I was babbling to my spouse about how glad I am to be out of the lab & moving to industry/data sci, but caught myself saying I’m not a scientist anymore. I’m rlly struggling with that. There’s a lot of post defense thoughts and internal wars to be addressed. It’s weird.
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Yea....
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Nobody prepares you for the weirdness of post-defense life. Like. How did nobody tell us about how emotionally charged it was? I feel like it’s extra weird for those not staying in academia, ripe for an identity crisis (halp)
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I think everyone I’ve seen do it ha felt the same
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