Well, it's taken me a while to set up my own blog. Since I always seem
to have extra words, I might as well put them here.
Since becoming a coach for graduate students and professors, I have been
shocked to find out how much I love working with English/Comp
Lit/Religion/Humanities types. I was used to hanging around with
science types -- my father having been a physics professor, my husband a
doctor/doctor (Ph.D./M.D.) and psychology being a science, according to
some.
But the humanities people are so eloquent and deep. Whenever I get off
the phone from my humanities dissertation group, I feel like I've been
reading poetry. I know one of them is reading this now and snickering.
The semester’s over. If you’re anything like the academics I coach, you feel like death warmed over. Those last stacks of grading got done on sheer will, determination and fumes. And this is before considering your writing deadlines, committee responsibilities, and other demands. You are suffering from Academic Exhaustion Syndrome. Academic Exhaustion Syndrome (an advanced, more scholarly state of burn out) is a state of emotional, and physical exhaustion caused by prolonged stress, ending with grading, over the course of the semester and academic year. As the stress continues, you begin to lose interest and motivation to work, you have fantasies of standing up and screaming in the middle of a meeting, and you wonder what temporary loss of reality testing made you decide to become an academic. This dreaded Syndrome can: Reduce your productivity and saps your energy Make you irritable and have thoughts of strangling an undergraduate Make you feel like you have nothing more to g
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