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“What happened to bridges?”
THANK YOU
chord progressions.”
YOU SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE G
you can still figure out the mood. Then figure out the message.”
“Grad school, of course. And as soon as I walked into orientation, it was like ‘surprise, bitch! Everybody in this room is just as smart as you are!’ That was a hard pill to swallow at first, I can’t lie. But it wasn’t all bad. For five years, I had the cache of being able to say ‘I’m in grad school’ and ‘I’m working on my Ph.D.’ But the reality was, I wasn’t working. I wasn’t hustling. I was floundering, and I was watching as my colleagues got opportunities and awards and jobs while I just…existed.
Why she calling me out, though
you’re not a hustler but you know how to finesse.
Damn, just put me on blast, huh?
My generation was raised by the internet and each other. We believe nothing and everything at the same damn time.”
Real
“Nobody reads this shit outside the classroom anyway," I groused. "Just like everything else we produce in the academy, the only people who’re gonna read it are other academics. It’s a circle-jerk and I hate it.”
Real shit
