Amanda MacNeil

Assistant Professor of Psychology @longwoodu. 📚🧘‍♀️☕️

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If you need me I’m crying in a corner at ACT because people were SO nice to me after my presentation. It’s been such a process getting here and that was everything to me 😭

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Live from the classroom. Coming soon to @TeachPsych ACT live in Louisville!

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3 students with Covid already aggghhhhh

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Nothing like getting two staples in your head on the eve of your first day as assistant professor YOINKS

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This light at the end of the tunnel has been keeping me going since November and I can’t wait to refract it tenfold and teach my heart out and be KIND to people 🤍

[Amanda MacNeil @AmandaMMacNeil]

On this, the eve of new faculty orientation, I’m feeling all the things. Grad school was a very negative experience for me, but I made it out with a degree and an awesome job at an awesome university and I am so happy that I feel EXCITED after so long.

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It’s happening people, stay calm. Just sent out a poll to schedule my dissertation defense 🥲

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Upon further inspection, so many TTPD lyrics relate to my graduate school experience. Ha ha. Help. 🙃

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I’m sitting on some really cool results about mindset of aging in younger adults right now 😎🆒

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I am constantly told I’m too sensitive. It’s cool to care.

[Amanda MacNeil @AmandaMMacNeil]

And “sensitive”. Don’t forget you can have feelings and still be a serious and successful academic :)

[Academic Chatter™ @AcademicChatter]

You can be kind and compassionate AND successful.

[Amanda MacNeil @AmandaMMacNeil]

I’m teaching a 6pm Intro Psych class this semester and these are the most engaged students I’ve ever had. Such a lovely class to end my time at @CLE_State with !! 🙂🙂

[Stephanie Hatzifilalithis, PhD @Stephaniehatzi]

AGEISM IS ALIVE AND WELL AND OLDER PEOPLE ARE NOT A SINGULAR HOMOGENOUS GROUP. GETTING OLDER ISN’T BAD AND THE ANTI-AGING INDUSTRY MAKES BILLIONS EVERY YEAR AND PROFITS LARGELY ON MAKING PEOPLE AND ESPECIALLY WOMEN FEEL LIKE AGING IS FIXABLE OR NEEDS TO BE CURED #gerotwitter

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Been having an ASTOUNDING issue with plagiarism and AI this semester. In JOURNALS. The last one was to reflect on their favorite thing, or most interesting thing they learned in class and how they will use it and one came back 99% AI generated. I’m so ☹️

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Posting negatively on rate my profesor two years after a course ended is very weird energy

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!!!!!!

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SOOOOOO I accepted an assistant professor position at Longwood University! GO LANCERS 💙🐴

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not to spoil the ending just yet…but the aforementioned light has gotten a lot brighter 😏

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Prepping for my first zoom interview and wishing I could hug every single version of my grad school self. She’s been THROUGH it and there’s light at the end of the tunnel 💛

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@roxannefelig SLAY