What is the dark side to be an academic?
For me it's the stress
What about you?
We are educated to shed light, not darkness. But, the lack of money for research may throw long and ugly shadows.
Formal duties may delay our works that want to do.
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Stressors related to academics, algebra and statistics were a boiling point for me, had I not taken a psychology class midway through college I do not think I would have made it.
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