Overcoming mental illness

Dignity and Hope for Venezuela

It started with incendiary rhetoric, with a change of patriotic symbols, with arming the masses to defend the revolution, with the dogmatization of education … It became a full blown dictatorship with the censorship of media, the imprisonment of opposition leaders, and the torture and killing of thousands of young protesters.
Today, I celebrate hope

The Cost of Getting a PhD, by Jennifer Walker

Let me share with you this essay by Jennifer Walker, originally published in Quartz, about Mental Health issues in academia. Honest reflection on the psychological cost of pursuing a PhD. There’s an awful cost to getting a PhD that no one talks about