Thank you, as a first-generation female from my family to have higher education from an indigenous community in India, I take your message with utmost reverence. Thank you, I am taking love, light and confidence from your vlog now to write my PhD. Best, Ngurang Reena.
I'm 51, female, and was born with spinabifida. I start my PhD in October. I tried to find PhD holders with spinabifida online, but couldn't. I imagine they are out there, but they are hidden. I've already had to make changes to my proposed research plan, as I won't be able to travel internationally. I'm already very conscious of the impact that this could have on my research.
you raise such important points. I thought I was bucking the trend when I got a job in HE with a disability. I've now left my position and will seek an alternative non-education type role.
What a beautifully productive and enlightening video❤️ Thank you for this powerful vlog on the academic underdog and sincere gratitude to the writer Caroline for inspiring it! ❤️❤️
I went from an undergraduate program where, during office hour discussion, faculty would tell me that I was bright and could conquer the world if I wanted to a graduate program where a faculty member told me that I wasn't a "top student". She paused and followed with "and that its okay". This wasn't due to a transition between a lower ranking school. It was quite the opposite. So I kept wondering what changed. One thing could be that intellectual standards are generally different between undergraduate and graduate programs. However, I also noticed that my undergrad student population was mostly Asian followed by equal amounts of Whites and Hispanics while my graduate program is in a university where the majority are Whites. So my faculty could, although coming from various backgrounds themselves, have a different exposure to intellectual "packages" and hence this could be why faculty in my graduate program treat me so differently? I am still traumatized from my experiences of my first two years in my graduate program. I am a third year Physics PhD and am frequently having thoughts of just walking away from the program even though I already passed my course requirements and my written qualifying exams. I feel like my soul has been torn out of me.
For context, I am a female, Hispanic, first generation born-in-USA, from low income family. I feel like I have put up a good fight, but am quite on the brink of quitting.
@@ElizabethMacias5 Sweet Liz, I don't know you at all, but your story came in really hard. Please don't doubt yourself on the words of some people who probably don't know how to fight to be seen every single day, or to be heard, just because of background or social status. You made it this far and proofed them wrong already! Their loss, not yours! However, easier said than done... When I was 8, my teachers told me to go to a special school for kids with mental disabilities and learning disorders - I will never forget either, even though I did actually proofed them wrong with gaining a bachelors and masters degree and I am running for a PhD. The reason? In a dominant white school, we were the weird and poor kids with a weird single mom. Their will always be a minority... But I changed my narrative. It was hard, but it worked for me. I just count every blessing that came by in life and in the end, there are more blessings than downs. I truly hope you will count your blessings too. You are in a PhD-program, I hope in a subject you are passionate about and you can proof to yourself that all the others are just wrong. So many others didn't even get there, even when they truly wanted to. Believe in yourself, your qualities and just stand out as an example! YES YOU CAN! And I hope you will
I'm sorry you are experiencing self- doubt, and hope that you've been able to come through that! From what you wrote, it sounds like the professor was trying to tell you that it's OK to not always be the strongest in the room.... that that's what the pursuit of a PhD is developing in you. In some ways, this can help us manage failure and our ego. But I don't know what the faculty member's follow-up or tone was to you, so I cannot say for sure.
Great moment at the end when you, Tara, I'm pretty sure, ad-libbed a little joke about the opening sounds of Monty Python's Holy Grail and later were unabashedly tickled at your own little spontaneous injection of humor. Thanks for setting an example for us THERE as well as in your sensibilities and dogged pursuit of justice and growth.
Thank you, as a first-generation female from my family to have higher education from an indigenous community in India, I take your message with utmost reverence. Thank you, I am taking love, light and confidence from your vlog now to write my PhD. Best, Ngurang Reena.
I'm 51, female, and was born with spinabifida. I start my PhD in October. I tried to find PhD holders with spinabifida online, but couldn't. I imagine they are out there, but they are hidden.
I've already had to make changes to my proposed research plan, as I won't be able to travel internationally. I'm already very conscious of the impact that this could have on my research.
Thank you Dr. Brabazon 💕
Thanks again, Tara.
you raise such important points. I thought I was bucking the trend when I got a job in HE with a disability. I've now left my position and will seek an alternative non-education type role.
Thank you Tara for making this vlog! You nailed it - as always ;-) Best wishes! Carolien
This is the most truthful account of how HE functions I have ever observed. Thank you for speaking truth to power
Wow - extraordinarily important issue and insights. Thank you.
This was a genuinely great video, and timely in our society too. Thank you.
What a beautifully productive and enlightening video❤️ Thank you for this powerful vlog on the academic underdog and sincere gratitude to the writer Caroline for inspiring it! ❤️❤️
Love it!
As always a real eye opener, I always learn something valuable from you. Thanks Tara.
This is a great topic that is rarely being discussed, thank you for bringing it up, you really made some key points.
so empowering ! 👍
Madam , how you keep yourself so fresh and energetic
I have wondered this myself! Please, do tell! You set a great example. Thanks, Rana, for voicing this in such a holistic way.
1st viewer here... Top fan. Go Tara!
Really love this video Tara.🌟
I went from an undergraduate program where, during office hour discussion, faculty would tell me that I was bright and could conquer the world if I wanted to a graduate program where a faculty member told me that I wasn't a "top student". She paused and followed with "and that its okay". This wasn't due to a transition between a lower ranking school. It was quite the opposite. So I kept wondering what changed. One thing could be that intellectual standards are generally different between undergraduate and graduate programs. However, I also noticed that my undergrad student population was mostly Asian followed by equal amounts of Whites and Hispanics while my graduate program is in a university where the majority are Whites. So my faculty could, although coming from various backgrounds themselves, have a different exposure to intellectual "packages" and hence this could be why faculty in my graduate program treat me so differently? I am still traumatized from my experiences of my first two years in my graduate program. I am a third year Physics PhD and am frequently having thoughts of just walking away from the program even though I already passed my course requirements and my written qualifying exams. I feel like my soul has been torn out of me.
For context, I am a female, Hispanic, first generation born-in-USA, from low income family. I feel like I have put up a good fight, but am quite on the brink of quitting.
@@ElizabethMacias5 Sweet Liz, I don't know you at all, but your story came in really hard. Please don't doubt yourself on the words of some people who probably don't know how to fight to be seen every single day, or to be heard, just because of background or social status. You made it this far and proofed them wrong already! Their loss, not yours! However, easier said than done... When I was 8, my teachers told me to go to a special school for kids with mental disabilities and learning disorders - I will never forget either, even though I did actually proofed them wrong with gaining a bachelors and masters degree and I am running for a PhD. The reason? In a dominant white school, we were the weird and poor kids with a weird single mom. Their will always be a minority... But I changed my narrative. It was hard, but it worked for me. I just count every blessing that came by in life and in the end, there are more blessings than downs. I truly hope you will count your blessings too. You are in a PhD-program, I hope in a subject you are passionate about and you can proof to yourself that all the others are just wrong. So many others didn't even get there, even when they truly wanted to. Believe in yourself, your qualities and just stand out as an example! YES YOU CAN! And I hope you will
I'm sorry you are experiencing self- doubt, and hope that you've been able to come through that! From what you wrote, it sounds like the professor was trying to tell you that it's OK to not always be the strongest in the room.... that that's what the pursuit of a PhD is developing in you. In some ways, this can help us manage failure and our ego. But I don't know what the faculty member's follow-up or tone was to you, so I cannot say for sure.
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Ma'am , Please make a video on how to defend your PhD thesis.
Great moment at the end when you, Tara, I'm pretty sure, ad-libbed a little joke about the opening sounds of Monty Python's Holy Grail and later were unabashedly tickled at your own little spontaneous injection of humor. Thanks for setting an example for us THERE as well as in your sensibilities and dogged pursuit of justice and growth.