Soon the thought-eater strikes, punishing my confidence and questioning my competence. “It doesn’t matter”, it says, while I frantically fill in the final job application quota for the day,“they don’t even look at you”. Alas, this is the part where I begin to wonder ‘Where am I going with this?’. I try not to let my worst cloud my best, but some days easily overpower an optimistic heart. But no matter. I’ve grown fairly resistant towards the irony. I have a set of positive reaffirmations that I chant before I select my language skills on the ATS form.
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I hope that this blog post might help you in time management during the thesis writing process. I was very relieved when I submitted my thesis on time and my calendar was free from daily pomodoro events.
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My burnout was a combination of an unfulfilling situation in life, bad experiences in the workplace, getting fired after company negotiations and having to give up good colleagues. During the Covid-19 pandemic, I had gotten used to not being around them physically, but I think I still need to discuss losing these people with my new psychotherapist.
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Networking is the most essential topic about how to find an internship or a job.
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What is a non-binary? For the first time someone asked me that in real life. Well, it was on the Internet, but I knew them from school. I explained what it means, how I see myself, and how I wish others would treat me.
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I came out of the closet as transgender at the start of my high school studies. I expected to encounter casual transphobia, intrusive questions, and some level of misgendering because of the systems in place in the study environment.
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I recently read a quote that says: “You can have anything, but you can’t have everything”. I wish my dad would have read this quote and would have lived accordingly to that and would have taught me that. I think your identity is what you commit yourself to. And I need to learn, to realize what I want in my life and how to stick to my decisions.
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Don’t be afraid to seek help, talk to a friend or family member, talk to anyone so that you won’t be alone.
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I had harboured an ideal of coping alone, but over the years, my symptoms had only gotten worse, which meant that I hadn’t been able to solve my issues. I saw new hope in the possibility of therapy. I hadn’t tried it before, and it could help me.
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I was diagnosed with a mixed form of personality disorders. So how to fight stigmas in academia?
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