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Jordan Boersma
@Jordan_Boersma
Postdoc @CornellBirds | Behavioral ecology/endocrinology | I ask and attempt to answer questions about pretty birds | he/him
Jan 25, 2022 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
This tweet did numbers (for me) and generated some new followers. Hello!

It was a bit "flexy", so now is a good time to share my long and unlikely (wrought with failure) journey to this dream postdoc:
1/ I failed my first undergrad semester @umontana (quite spectacularly, ~1.5 GPA), and never really gained my footing, graduating with a <3.0 GPA.

During my junior year I applied for many field jobs and got rejected by all of them. Summer was coming and I had no prospects...
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