Tag: academia

“I think you’ve already decided. You have all the answers figured out; you need to listen to yourself.” This was the usual type of ending to a conversation I’d have, on average, with two or three students every year. They would knock on my office door and ask if I had time...

On March 29, 2022, my life took a dramatic turn. In the early hours of the previous day, my waters broke, heralding a grueling 32-hour labor. It was an ordeal filled with pain, anxiety, and a life-threatening complication with the placenta. But from this harrowing experience, I emerged as a mother t...

Dark academia? I learned about them on-line somewhere two years ago- they remind me of goth, but goth music was always and still is a subdivision of this little thing you might have heard of called rock and roll, Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy are just as much hard nasty rock and roll band as about an...