you are so much more than that failed test. that interview gone wrong, your relapse, the missed opportunities, the words you wish you could take back. you are not your mistakes. you’re a person who’s trying. there are so many opportunities to make things right. you’ll get there, even if it takes a few more tries.
Things I greatly dislike about the academic research process:
- So. Much. Expended. Time. And. Energy.
- Much of it feels shallowly motivated by the academic rat race—getting ahead, earning those promotions, winning that fame.
- There’s definitely a lowest common denominator, and it’s not great.
- How journals make the submission process such a damn clerical chore. Like, you’re gonna make me reformat all of my citations, change all of my word counts, and convert my entire manuscript to British spelling conventions just to conform to your tedious specifications? Are you not already paying editorial staff to do this shit?
- Editorial Manager. You are a relic of the early 2000s and need a serious facelift. Or you need to die. Thanks for eating my submission, jerkface.
- That one middle co-author/peripheral collaborator with a bloated sense of self-importance and ALL the feelings. Kindly shove your trivial opinions on word choice, sit yo’ ass down, and just let me submit this thing.
- Reviewer #2. You know who and what you are.
- The sadomasochism of repeated rejections and/or slow review turnarounds.
