'What distracts me from my science is not my teaching per se, but my financial worries.' ScienceWorkingLife
When I started graduate school, I knew it was not going to be an easy ride—not only because of the work, but also financially. My graduate stipend is thousands of dollars below the federal poverty line. This is perhaps adequate when graduate students have family support to fall back on, or at least minimal expenses. But for me, and for many others, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
But my teaching has nothing to do with a lack of passion for my field of study. I love my research. Sometimes, when I go home after setting up an exciting experiment, I find myself counting the hours until I can return to the lab and see the results the next morning. What distracts me from my science is not my teaching per se, but my financial worries.
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