Monthly Archives: February 2011

Goodbye academia: The aftermath.

Given the overwhelming response to my previous post (thanks redditors!) I think I owe people a follow-up. I pinned my blog post on reddit just as a random experiment, only because I felt “well, I’d like some opinions on this”. I expected a few heads up and some “lol you’re a loser” comment. It was …

February 22, 2011 - 12:34 pm | By devicerandom | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (15)

Goodbye academia, I get a life.

One of my first memories is myself, 5 years old, going to my mother and declare to her, as serious as only children can be: “I will be a scientist.” Yesterday night I was in my office in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge packing my stuff, resolved to not go back …

February 18, 2011 - 11:49 am | By devicerandom | Posted in just me, science | Tagged , , , , | Comments (182)

To remember myself that science is joy

This period sucks, I’m badly overstressed and my career is at a turning point which I still don’t know how it will turn -all indications seem to be for the “not nicely” but we will see. I have no time (and overall no energies) therefore to post anything really cogent, but I just wanted to …

February 5, 2011 - 2:14 pm | By devicerandom | Posted in science | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)