I wasn't suppose to be here,

Male Black student still wondering how I made it to the pinnacle of higher Ed 📚📘🎒|| (*_*) || PhD Pharmacology | Home of the Tater tot hot dish

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

Nobody Wants to Talk About: My PhD stipend is considered financial aid, and not a salary but I am treated more like a worker not a student.
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[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

Imposter Syndrome: When I get a NIH grant but believe that the 4 months I spent working on it had nothing to do with it being accepted.
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[Daniel Gould, MD, PhD @DJGould94]

PhD supervisors have two moods:

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

To The Young Scientist Inside Me: POC Professors do exist and you are fully capable of becoming one yourself.
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[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

To The Young Scientist Inside Me: You are not the mistakes you make in lab! You are not the mistakes you make in lab!
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[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

@prachithakurphd Yes! And also your mental health.

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

@MccoyMba @PhDVoice Wild 😮

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

Nobody Wants to Talk About: Principal investigators (PIs) departing their institutions, leaving students struggling to find the support that they need to complete their dissertation.
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[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

@DanRSuissa @PhDVoice I'm so happy for you! 💯

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

@prachithakurphd @PhDVoice I agree, job security is outdated but that is why it baffles mean PhD programs are not focused on diversifying and establishing requirements for not being a professor. For example, a lot of programs require, not recommend students to be a TA to be in good standing.

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

Nobody Wants to Talk About: Despite the long term decline of academic job security. PhD program training remains the same: To produce more professors. Make it make sense.
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[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

@HealthyScience1 I totally agree 💯.

[Guerrilla Scholar @GuerrillaScholr]

@GradStudn A prof of mine stopped obsessing over pubs; he asked, "Why marshal an ever-lengthening array of titles only so they could one day stand at attention at the foot of an obituary?"

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

Nobody Wants to Talk About: The culture of Academia is to chase citations, not to change society.
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[Alia's Shitposting Account, PhD 💻🧬✏️🇵🇸 @AliaBio]

@Ahaiss1 @GradStudn Which, when it results in you earning not even the equivalent of the minimum salary - literally the definition of the minimum amount of money you need to live - is completely unacceptable.

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

@MauMauHistorian @PhDVoice Of course, but these parameters financially benefit only the schools not the students. We are expected to work more than 40 hours, but many students are horribly underpaid relative to the price of living.

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

Nobody Wants to Talk About: My PhD stipend is considered financial aid, and not a salary but I am treated more like a worker not a student.
#phdvoice #AcademicTwitter

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

@lowsaltfoodguy Yes 😅, I should have but that comment had so many layers to it. I would have been talking all day.

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

I didn't know how to feel when my professor told me I was the first POC in her 28 years of education to get a Ph.D. Proud? Sad? Disappointed?
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[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

@prachithakurphd Thank you 😭, doing it for the culture but also myself.

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

@emilyetaylor23 Speaking straight Facts 💯

[I wasn't suppose to be here, @GradStudn]

Building your network during your Ph.D. is as important as getting the Ph.D. sometimes more so.
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