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The hardest part of a PhD and an academic job isn’t intelligence, grants, or research chops..

My mom hugged me yesterday and started to cry, “I wish you lived closer” I was visiting for Christmas. She had brain surgery two weeks ago.
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This has been the hard part for me. The necessity of moving across the country to find the needle in the haystack. Seeing loved ones and friends grow up , and now grow old, from a distance.
So many of us have had to choose between the career that we love and the people that we love, and now that the holidays are over and we head back to our lives we will deal with the what if’s and the guilt.

Solidarity, friends.
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