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Dealing with discouragement during the academic job hunt
Similar to this site's question on impostor syndrome, what strategies would people recommend for dealing with self-doubt and discouragement on the academic job market?
It's not that I think I'm an ...
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Getting over a bad PhD start
Backstory - I was accepted for a PhD at an excellent university in a new and exciting field I've been working towards for a long time. Due to a number of issues, I had to delay my start date for 6 ...
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New faculty. Already lagging on responsibilities bad. Any advice on coming back?
I'm a fourth year doctoral candidate who is ABD right now and recently got a full time position at a small liberal arts college (SLAC). So far, I'm not off to a great start. I showed up to orientation ...
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Second PhD after a not successful PhD and not being trained enough by professor [duplicate]
It is my fifth year of graduate studies in chemistry. I haven't had enough training from my professor and I don't have enough confidence to do even a post-doc. It is so close to my graduation, that I ...
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What are my options post PHD as a blissfully ignorant, neurodivergent candidate about to graduate with few marketable skills?
I entered academia despite my suboptimal "stats" (GPA, research experience, etc.) because I was allured by the idea of focusing on a research project. Even my Master's advisor noted how I ...
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How to deal with a total lack of motivation, stress and anxiety when finishing my masters thesis?
I am a master's student in Germany. I am currently writing my thesis and am more or less done with it.
Last week, I wrote my Conclusions and Methodology, so the only things left are the Introduction ...
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I keep making excessive silly mistakes. I just caught another one right before graduation - how to tell my advisor?
I am a graduate engineering student at a highly competitive university. I am writing my thesis and I feel like I am making great number of silly mistakes. The worst thing is that I do not realize my ...
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Professor wants master thesis published in journal - impostor syndrome, next steps etc
my professor stated that my thesis has potential to be published in a scientific journal.
I have not come into contact with publishing in journals yet.
He advised me to put my empirical results, which ...
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Dealing with imposter syndrome on the job market
My imposter syndrome is focused around the academic job market (which is different than other posted questions), and it comes in two parts:
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My feelings of being an imposter have been exacerbated ...
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I feel like I didn't deserve to pass an exam [duplicate]
Recently I did my retake exam for Advanced Maths in college. Compared to the ordinary exam, it was easier. My grade was 9/10. I worked very hard for it, non-stop for 5 months, dealing with anxiety and ...
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How to get rid of the awkwardness and feeling of inferiority for being a fairly old graduate/PHD student? [duplicate]
I am a first year MS student in an STEM area. For many reasons I didn't enter this subject area and didn't gain ANY research experience until last summer, when I was 26 (now 27). So starting next fall ...
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How to overcome lack of motivation and improve focus [duplicate]
2 weeks ago I just started a phd abroad (Germany) and I am Brazilian. Previously I was in job that bored me to death and I chose to leave it and come to Germany to live my dream and do a PhD. However, ...
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Is it normal to feel like my level is more like at the undergraduate level though I'm a PhD student?
I'm in my first year of PhD, but sometimes I forget basic concepts that I have learned in my undergraduate years. I have a masters but my masters was general not specific, and now I'm working in a ...
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I passed my PhD with no corrections but feel I don't deserve it [duplicate]
I had a wonderful experience on my PhD study which was an AHRC funded PhD at an elite university in the UK. I loved my topic and the whole world of academia. I was extremely ambitious and threw myself ...
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Signs of toxic behavior in my peer group
I've been experiencing a phenomenon for a couple of months now that I cannot understand. I'm a first year phd student and I'm working on a problem that my advisor has suggested. I've made some ...
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