*This is an article about how we are communicating during COVID-19 and cannot adequately address all of the struggles people are going through on a daily basis.
I am starting to get a nagging feeling as we approach the last couple of weeks of April. We have been social distancing and isolating now for roughly a month in my area and it’s still not clear when this will end. Although it seems like in a lot of ways we are coming together as a society while being apart there are some who seem to see this as a time to keep score on the people in their lives. …
· Let me preface this by saying I am writing this fresh out of the strange and measured world of academia where inadequacy is in the air you breathe (see: imposter syndrome).
If academia and life so far have taught me anything it’s this: it is okay to fail. My only expertise on the topic is that I have failed, messed up, and been rejected hundreds of times. Some of these still sting and some of them don’t, but I can’t be bitter forever … In the moment, failure can feel like the worst thing in the world (e.g., …
