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Jessica Wildfire
Jessica Wildfire

Nov 3, 2018

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You Can Never Demand Respect

A true badass does their thing, with or without it.

Oleg

The faculty laughed at me. I’d just finished my research presentation, the climax of a two-day campus visit. Only a few people understood my project. A few professors told me I was wasting my time.

Someone else asked me, “Are you sure you know what you’re doing? You seem too interdisciplinary.”

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