At the beginning of my PhD, the director of the department gave our entire cohort a lecture about not getting pregnant and told one of my friends when she applied for maternity leave that the PhD should be a time of celibacy. Some of our supervisors publicly and proudly exchanged stories of failed marriages as if this was the ultimate proof of their devotion to research. Others gossiped about promising colleagues who would have achieved so much more had they not had children. All of these subtle and not so subtle hints guaranteed that no graduate student, especially those with families, would ever sacrifice enough for their research and would thus, by implication, always be a failure in some respect. theguardian/higher-education-network/2014/mar/06/mental-health-academics-growing-problem-pressure-university .. if the PhD is a time of celibacy, Im sure doing that noise correctly! Two years and counting .. I wish the PhD didnt make me selective-as-f--k, but frankly - its near close to impossible for me to find someone attractive these days. Weird thing is, I find nothing lacking (my music / culture tastes are so off the beaten path, its pretty close to impossible for me to find the proper intersection). The rest of this article, however, is disturbingly on point.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:02:27 +0000
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