For a long time, I was convinced I was ahead of my peers. I was an intelligent boy who was quick to pick up reading, writing, and doing math. Extremely curious, I also knew more than most of my classmates. I believed I was more mature as well. After all, I had lived through the illness and loss of my mother before most …
All the goals I’m not going to pursue anymore
I don’t know when I picked up on this idea. It might have been while doing crafts as a child. Maybe it happened while working on school assignments. It could also have occurred while learning to play an instrument or doing sports. I do know this. I have absorbed the idea that I must finish what I start—and I have …
During the final stages of my PhD, I felt totally overwhelmed. I had been struggling to finish a research project I initiated several years prior. The results from my computer simulations were puzzling me, and my article on them was rejected by my journal of choice. Yet, I needed both my writing and sound scientific …