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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

I started off one of my classes by asking students to share in the chat what they'd do if they had an extra hour in their lives & then I cancelled the rest of class & told them to go do that thing. I am now reading their class reflections, and this is what they all mention.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

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4 years

At some point I switched out Facebook for Twitter because I much prefer the terrible politics of strangers to the terrible politics of people I know

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Jacquelyn Ardam

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3 years

@HopeAndChang A lot of them said they would take a nap or exercise! Some said sit outside in the sun (this is LA). A number wanted to catch up on school work, so we all stayed on zoom together to keep each other accountable. It was great!

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Jacquelyn Ardam

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6 years

when I cite something from page 1 of a book, I worry that careful readers will think that I haven't read more than that, which is sometimes true

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

I have seen approx 400 tweets about what “academia” is like today but actually I promise that’s just what a job is like

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

1 year

watch out millennials, Gen Z is ruthless about our books (slide by brilliant UCLA undergrad Hannah Jannol)

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

At the end of time, when there is just one lonely academic left on twitter, they will still be tweeting “I am thrilled to announce” into the void while the flames rise up around them.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

@keithlovesfood I'm an administrator 🙂

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

brb quitting my job so I can devote the rest of my life to writing about this exhibit

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

@PraxisProfD the answer to that question is always a nap! I can’t say I did nap that day but don’t worry about me, I get plenty of naps in the pandemic 🙂

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

every day of my adult life I am grateful that I had only limited ways to put my ideas on the internet as a young person

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

Your regular PSA to get the Libby app, which allows you to listen to audiobooks for free through your public library! All you need is a library card!

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

Advice I have given today to a person in my professional life that I will give to you, Twitter: Do not take a one-year adjunct job with a 4/4 teaching load that will pay you under 40K and require you to move across the country. No.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

A big part of my job is mentoring undergraduate students in research programs in the humanities, arts, and social sciences and so I have conversations with students who are thinking about getting PhDs every single week of my life. Here is what I tell them.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

6 years

I have been line editing academic writing for @ASAP_Journal for about six months now and my advice to 95% of you is: write shorter sentences.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

oh hello I've gone viral! I don't have a soundcloud to plug but I do write a bunch, and often about teaching!

WRITING

Book Avidly Reads Poetry, NYU Press Selected Essays “The First Restaurant Critic of Color at the L.A. Times”Los Angeles Review of Books “The Power of a Poem”From the Square,…

jacquelynardam.com

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

I think that as a culture we have no idea what women in the 35-40 age range look like

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

Last night my Hollywood agent friend told me that some soap operas are beginning filming again & that actors are keeping 10 feet away from each other & also using mannequins with wigs for makeout scenes, so what I’m saying is it might be time for me to start watching soaps

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

1 year

sometimes when I tell students about interlibrary loan they don't believe me

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

6 years

@Nicole_Cliffe When I was a kid, I saw a Dateline or similar report that used a blacklight to show the bacteria, urine, ETC in bowls of unwrapped mints at counters in restaurants. I've been whispering "pee mints" to myself/others for 25+ years

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

I regularly have conversations with PhDs thinking about going into admin and staff jobs at colleges & universities so I am going to do a little thread about things that come up in these conversations!

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

good news: Millie got a job #savetheUSPS

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

a man on a dating app has just asked me for my hip and waist size and you can consider this tweet the formal announcement of my spinsterhood

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

6 months

I regularly email with folks across campus and here is a highly scientific assessment of email length by discipline sciences: three words no punctuation social sciences: three full sentences humanities: three lengthy paragraphs, min. 3 semicolons arts: anything is possible

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

7 months

I just tweeted out an excellent Assistant Director position at the Huntington Library and as a PhD and former faculty member turned academic admin, let me give you some advice about applying to positions like this

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

Some news: I found out last week that my last, best chance for a tenure-track job this year has evaporated. I cannot renew my contract at my current institution, and I’ve decided not to apply to visiting positions. This is quite likely my last year as a professor.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

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6 years

While I had plenty of imposter syndrome as a grad student, four years of contingent life post-PhD has left me quite sure that I am not an imposter, that I am quite good at my job actually, and that I just need a chance to do it properly

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

8 years

witch #1 #NoBanNoWall @ACLUMaine @ Bangor airport protest

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

Professors are fine but have you ever heard about LIBRARIANS 🔥

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

sometimes I think I miss grad school but what I really miss is all my friends living in the same city

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

1 year

A little advice thread for PhDs who may be interested in careers in academia outside of teaching, because it is that time of year. I am here to tell you that universities are filled with staff/admin jobs, some requiring PhDs, some not, that are often filled by PhDs!!

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

my 2021 pedagogy: OKAY WHO WANTS TO SEE A DOG

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@jaxwendy

4 years

She did this to herself FYI

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

6 months

the gap between what people who do not work in education think is happening in college classrooms and what is actually happening in college classrooms is VAST

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

My hot take after too much twitter is that there are probably thousands of people who work on your very campus who are not students or tenure/tenure-track faculty and who have a vastly different experience and understanding of the university than you do

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

thinking of rewriting The Secret History from the perspective of Hampden College's Visiting Assistant Professor who is just trying to teach her classes and provide for her dog at the end of her contract while the students are literally holding bacchanals and murdering each other

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

8 months

there is nothing in the world I hate more than being asked if a student is in the "top 1%" or "top 2-5%"

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

I feel like single dog ladies are too often erased from the discourse; we exist

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

Today my boss asked me if I wanted to plan a meeting with her to chat about my professional development and career goals and I had to hold back tears because no one in a position of any sort of power over my professional life has ever asked me that and, wow, what a realization.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

But for now, I’ll just say this: my job has meant everything to me, and I am devastated by the fact that there is not a permanent place for me, for most scholars of my generation, in academia. You all know the statistics; I will not repeat them.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

When you wake up preferring not to

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

IMPORTANT TWEET: it is my birthday; please reply with photos of your dog!! If you don’t have a dog, please borrow one for this purpose, thank you.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

11 months

personally I do not think that universities should be run like businesses but what do I know

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

I have tried so very hard to stop saying "guys" all the time and have replaced it with "folks" but in my heart am I a "folks" person? I feel like Obama or someone's midwestern grandpa every time I say it. (do not recommend "ya'll" I will sound even sillier)

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

1 year

@seeshespeak omg not that I am so into tact but that is tacky af

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

evergreen tweet: if you are putting on a panel about the state of anything in academia and not including grad students and contingent workers on the panel: what are you doing.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

tfw when a small college in Maine could not renew your contract but buys several islands

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

1 year

I want to tweet about English majors all day but I, an English major, have a job.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

6 years

@Nicole_Cliffe replacing my ex with this fluff

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

I am now that person in EVERY committee meeting announcing that the real problem in the humanities is that there are so few TT jobs & most of the other jobs have no security/do not pay well & that there is no easy path to "lucrative" employment for hum PhDs outside academia

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

some good news: next week I begin work as the new Assistant Director of the Undergraduate Research Center in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at @UCLA ! I'm thrilled to join a team of inventive educators committed to undergraduate learning at a public university.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 months

My secret to staying on top of emails is to answer them in a caffeine-fueled frenzy in the first hour of every day before most people are at work and to write no more than 5 sentences per email. It can be done even if you have a PhD in English.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

MY BOOK IS REAL!!! Please join me in a little joyful cry. A dream has come true.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

I rank every student as the top 1% of students of all time on those stupid LOR ranking forms!! come at me bros!!

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

6 years

Agamben on concentration camps: scarily relevant to our current political moment

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

gather round, Millie, I mean “Milagro,” and let me tell you the tale of Hilaria Baldwin

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

the next time I see a tenured professor share info about a one year (OR ONE SEMESTER) college teaching gig and frame it as a wonderful opportunity, I will send them an 8000 word essay on the topic, throw my computer out the window, and take to the sea.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

PhD programs can be amazing. Spend years of your life researching something that excites you intellectually can be wonderful. They can also be miserable, deeply anxiety-provoking under the best circumstances, and even with full funding, they often do not pay enough.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

I am happy to feel some sense of agency over my life again; I cry every time I think that this might be my last time teaching poetry to rooms of beautiful young people.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

I also tell them that they should not get a PhD, esp in the arts/humanities, if they are hoping to be a fancy tenured professors like their tenured professors. I share with them all kinds of charts and graphs re: pay, & I emphasize that MORE EDUCATION DOES NOT MEAN MORE $$

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

This weekend I saw several humanities PhD friends who have gotten out of the contingent game. Their current jobs are: producer of true crime/horror tv shows, communications manager at a university research center, sales specialist for a Patagonia travel company.

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@jaxwendy

2 years

I tell them that if they want to get a PhD, they should not assume that if they just work a little bit harder, publish a little bit more, be the best grad student to ever grad student, that they will get the TT job. Academia, like everything else, is not a meritocracy

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

Exciting news for end times: I'm the new Director of the Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UCLA! Stay tuned for a job announcement for my replacement; we will be hiring a new assistant director soon!

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

well at the age of 39 I have learned the secret of cleanliness which is: having a home with enough space to put away all the things

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@jaxwendy

2 years

my friend has just sent me a screenshot of someone reading my book in their DATING APP PROFILE omg I have ARRIVED

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

help I think I’m in a @carmenmmachado story

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

The most unpopular hill I am ready to die on is that virtual conferences take a ton of work (I organized one for 1000 people last May) and the reason you still have to pay conference fees is that they also cost a ton of money to put on. A conference is not a zoom link.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

Millie will be handling my afternoon emails

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 months

uncontroversial tweet of the day: if someone writes you a letter of rec for something and you get whatever it is: tell your recommenders!!

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

As anyone who has been on the humanities academic job market recently knows, the problem is not that there is a dearth of WORK for humanities PhDs, it’s that only a small percentage of that work comes with a livable wage, benefits, and any sort of job security.

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@jaxwendy

5 years

After spending 4 years in contingent positions on 1-year contracts, and 5 years on the academic job market altogether—some years as a finalist for TT positions, some years without interviews—I am exhausted in every way that you might imagine.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

Today I have graded 32 assignments, read 200 pages, planned two classes, edited two pieces, and applied for three jobs. I await your applause.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

1 year

book prize for academics who write weird little books after not getting tt jobs and abandoning their monographs: when

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

CRYING AT WORK: a collection of essays. who's in?

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

what if literary criticism is just a form of fanfic

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

my dear friend just got a TT job after 7 years of contingent limbo & being treated like trash by a certain institution in MTL & she is too good of a person to put these feelings on twitter but I am not so I will just say: GOOD RIDDANCE, my wrath will go on

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

the only thing that matters in my fall syllabus

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@jaxwendy

5 years

A true account of my three years as a VAP in central Maine, featuring tales of academic contingency, a terribly bleak dating situation, too much snow, and so much bug-related suffering.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

I hope I can find a career important to me as this one has been. I might go back into publishing and move somewhere interesting for the right job; I might just move back to LA and see what kind of life I can make for myself there, with my dog Millie and avocados.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

1 year

What would grad school have been like if I had read They Say/I Say or in fact any book at all on the research process? (I ask myself every day that I am teaching undergrads how to do research) Or, I have come around to templates.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

1 year

I humbly suggest that this is the only paragraph that matters in the English majors essay

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

Because it is *that time* of year for many academics, I'm going to do a thread about my experiences applying for non-academic jobs and academic (but non-faculty) jobs. I hope that this will be useful, though let's be honest I was not doing this in a global pandemic so YMMV.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

When I wrote this essay this time last year, it felt like the beginning of the end, and now I see that it was.

Real Toads at the International Cryptozoology Museum - BLARB

Jacquelyn Ardam visits the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

blog.lareviewofbooks.org

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

1 year

I am too tired to start over on a new app so I guess I will die here alone?

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

5 years

Tomorrow is my last day in the classroom as a college professor. I started teaching as a grad student in 2008 & it has been the most invigorating and meaningful part of my academic career. I feel so lucky that I have taught such brilliant & dedicated students at UCLA and Colby.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

4 years

I want to BROWSE at a USED BOOKSTORE and touch EVERYTHING with my HANDS and buy AT LEAST FOUR BOOKS: one I’ve read but don’t own, one I will read immediately, one I will never read, and one that I will give to a FRIEND.

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

one of my students asked me about the major differences between private and public colleges and I said the cheese plates

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@jaxwendy

1 year

in today’s class we explained what a card catalog is to Gen Z!!

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@jaxwendy

2 years

big sweeping statement:my generation of (millennial) academics seems a lot more actively invested in NOT taking the "if I suffered you have to suffer" attitude toward education that so many of our predecessors have & I think this is because so many of us have been in therapy

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

1 year

I have measured out my life in Duo Mobile two-factor authentication notification pushes

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

@darth when u need a wing so bad

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

I tell them that if they still want to get a PhD, and if they want to get a job that pays them more than $40k/year when they are done with it, that their side hustles in grad school (bc everyone has them) should be in offices so they learn how to use excel and send emails on time

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

2 years

sometimes I really miss grad school but what I think I really miss is being young

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@jaxwendy

2 years

I tell them that they should think about a PhD program like they think about a job. It is more school, and we all love school, but I tell them that doing a PhD program is financial decision. I work at UCLA, so a lot of my students are first gen, and/or low-income

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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy

3 years

I would like to throw the term “alt-ac” into the sea

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@jaxwendy

1 year

Jon

@BiggestttHater

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what is y’all most liked tweet?

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@jaxwendy

5 years

I thought about writing something very long and very angry, listing my accomplishments, spamming twitter with my CV and student evals, doing a million things that will ultimately have no effect but might make me feel better, in my righteous rage, for a little while.

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@jaxwendy

5 years

I have read a lot of tweets about this, but isn’t the real worst interview the one that went fabulously, but you didn’t get the job anyway?

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@jaxwendy

4 years

Is everyone traveling/on vacation? Aren’t we in a pandemic? I honestly do not know what is happening, I feel like I am living in a different universe.

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