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The Most Frustrating Part of Academia: You Can Do Everything Right and Still Be Discounted
There’s one thing I’ve learned that no one really prepares you for in academia:
You can do all the right things. You can follow every step perfectly. And you’ll still be told you’re not good enough.
It doesn’t matter if you publish, get your PhD, get the job. You’ll hit these thresholds—tenure, full professor, whatever—and you’ll realize: none of it actually guarantees you belong. It’s not you. The system just doesn’t know how to make sense of people like you. People like me.
That’s the part that messes with your head.
You keep asking: “Did I earn this?”
You wonder: “Do I actually deserve…
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