getting cozy with the possibility of failure and your own resilience through it will only be freeing. At least that is my two cents.

research. Not everyone will like that perspective, but it helps me to solidify that I will be okay even if my worst case happens. It helps to release the anxiety build up as that anxiety is frequently what actually CAUSES the failure. Academia is many failures with some success sprinkled in, so..

..your knowledge of a question, remember that all (or most) of your committee do want you to succeed. It helps me to think of the worst case. Here, worst case is failure. There is likely another chance. If failure happens again, it will end a chapter but by no means ends any chance of working in...

It's important to take time to zoom out and separate from the intense nerves. Reflect on the excitement for the projects you're working on, hype yourself up that you have learned a lot and you aren't the same as when you started, make yourself okay with admitting when you've reached the end of..

@heidi-aronson.bsky.social Do y'all do saltwater or only fresh?

“There is a cult of ignorance in the US & there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political & cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” -Isaac Asimov

Alien abuction zone

There's also one that is something like male survival space that posters get yeeted to when the commenters judge their space too harshly. Full battle of the form vs function crew

This is filthy and I love it. Gonna surprise my coworker with some code that slays later