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Reasons to pursue a PhD:
-healthcare
-enjoying research
-library access
-sometimes there are protest movements
-meet people who enjoy research and/or protest movements
-sometimes there are events with free food & booze
-sometimes you get paid to travel (or at least reimbursed)
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as a middle-aged man who cycles from a beard to a mustache to something in between, i appreciate this representation from zohran mamdani here
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Another fav: “what is called intellectual is usually just something that demands the work and effort of listening, the force of attention and memory, actually love: in other words, emotion.” Adorno
Men if you put a 32 belt around your 30x30 jeans you will be unstoppable in the Trader Joe's frozen foods aisle
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"In adjusting to the mad whole the cured patient becomes really sick—which is not to imply that the uncured are any healthier." Adorno
I have to say, the longer I spend in the trenches of community mental health where just simply being with the client in their pain goes such a long way, the less concerned I am with all of the little squabbles on here between various therapists
I have much less zeal about “real” therapy or even defending some kind of authentic psychoanalytic approach, and honestly I’m not even sure what that means anymore
Every time I post a tweet on here there’s a little voice in my head that says “what’s the point” and then I delete it




















