Posted by philyra on December 12, 2006, at 13:28:30
In reply to Re: transference » philyra, posted by gardenergirl on December 10, 2006, at 22:11:49
It was a great meeting. I told him the last semester has been really rough for me without giving details, and asked for some feedback on my work. He was encouraging and reassuring, and also blunt: "welcome to the academy. This is what it's like, unfortunately." Also reassured me that I do belong here and that I've been doing good work. I wanted/needed to hear that.
My eyes welled up a little bit, but I stuck to business and I feel SO much better. The meeting reminded me that he's just a regular, nice, smart guy who I'm lucky to be working with in my field. He also told me to come in anytime I start having "imposter syndrome" again. He started naming all the tenured profs in the department who also suffer from the syndrome. Hilarious!
Thanks for your support GG. Good luck on the diss-ating.
xo,
philyra
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