Why was she surprised and grateful that I asked? Why don't people enuinely check in with others even in small ways anymore?

Community is everything and kindness costs nothing. Take care of each other ya'll 🤟

Spinning my wheels and not making progress is when the joy ends. As long as I'm learning and growing, I love it!

Glad I'm not alone on this 🥰

Surgiversary is probably a better fit since I've been out as trans much longer than a year lol.

Thanks :).

I genuinely wish I could do it more often. It combines my academic joys (biomechanics, anatomy, etc) with my love of dancing.

@ethankocak.com?

But don't mind me. I'll be dancing for the next 8 hours.

Starting with volunteering at a physical therapy place to help those interested in social dancing learn how to adjust post surgery to new limitations (unpaid but can't be done by AI).

Find your joy today ya'll. 🕺

However, grad school burnout, learning at this pace with the stress involved, is such a thing that it is studied! We can't expect people to do it, at this pace with this stress of job insecurity, until they retire. It's not possible.