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The Emotional Transition: An Introduction
Hello, fellow quitter! If you’re here, it means you’re leaving grad school, or quitting the adjunct circuit, or bailing on the job market, or considering in some way getting out of academia. You’ve...
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Packing It In: Getting Rid of Books & Moving Out of Your Office
I think it was bookshelves that got me hooked on the idea of academia in the first place. I vividly recall visiting a Professor’s home while an undergrad friend was house sitting. On a leafy street in...
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Should I Quit? Definitive answers here!
Just kidding. Sorry. We can’t tell you if you should quit. We truly wish we could be an Academic Magic 8-ball and give you that confirmation you’re looking for. renske herder via Compfight The...
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Academia: No pain, no gain? Jet’s story of illness, diagnosis and the road to...
After reading Lauren’s and Currer’s stories that chart their experiences with depression during and after their PhD studies I was struck by the common threads about frequent occurrences of physical...
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Missing Your Favorite Academic Conference? Don’t!
At a work function, a number of my colleagues were talking about attending the Modern Language Associate Convention. MLA is the conference in English and Comparative Literature studies and, as such, it...
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You Are Human First: Reframing Identity, Success, and Failure
This guest post was written by post-academic Christine Slocum, who blogs at Seattleite from Syracuse. Remember, you are human first. Academia and graduate school are greedy institutions, demanding a...
View ArticleI’m In Love With the Cronk of Higher Ed, Our Very Own Onion!
Post-acers, why haven’t you told me about The Cronk of Higher Ed?!! This is post-academic recovery gold!! The Cronk is our very own Onion, skewering higher ed practices and issues and I’m in LOVE with...
View ArticlePhD PTSD: Find the Joy in Your Sorrow
Guest post by Sacha Siskonen. She currently exists somewhere between academia and the non-academic world in a nether region of teaching. She hopes to exit this realm in the near future, but she has...
View ArticleLife Coaching: Working with One, Working As One
Posting on behalf of Kathleen “Currer Bell” Miller. We at How to Leave Academia have observed the growing popularity of the life coach, both as a resource for folks transitioning out of academia, as...
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