Tag: academia

  • Blogging from Home Quarantine: My 2023 Year-end Report

    A year-end report of my progress as a scientist on the year I left academia. Writing my progress at the end of each year became a habit, to remind me of how far I’ve actually come.

  • A reflection on professional conferences for women (in STEM) that I’ve attended

    A reflection on professional conferences for women (in STEM) that I’ve attended

    This weekend, I’ve had the pleasure of attending Women Who Code: CONNECT Asia 2023 with the conference fee waived. I am an absolute beginner with barely a foot into the tech door, so I was grateful for the opportunity to peek behind the curtain and meet the community. To date, I have attended three professional…

  • Last Day at University

    Last Day at University

    My faculty room was almost empty, save for my desktop computer which needed reformatting. I checked my work inbox on that computer for the last time. I logged out my Google and Apple ID accounts, and erased all contents. I knocked on my tenure-track mentor’s door to say goodbye. Six months ago, he and I…

  • [Career Break] The First 30 Days

    [Career Break] The First 30 Days

    I’ve now taken 30 days off work. It’s the first time in my adult life that I’ve ever taken a vacation that lasted more than 10 days. Most of my time off have been for the year-end holidays, usually still hectic, and all the time never enough. Some trauma and burnout The past few years…

  • I’m finally on break!

    I’m finally on break!

    I did it! I submitted my resignation letter. I’m officially counting down to unemployment freedom my career break. In Japan, the general rule is to give notice a month in advance. But, I have a hefty 34 days of paid holidays left, so I filed my resignation 2 months early. A week after filing it,…

  • A salute to the classroom

    On the day I wrote this, I submitted the grades for my last class in the university. Of the many, many things an academic does, I have to say, teaching has been the most fulfilling for me. I have no idea how many are like me, but it definitely brought me joy when students took…

  • an unattached academic’s household of 1

    an unattached academic’s household of 1

    I spent my postdoc years with a colleague who turned into a really good friend, let’s call her V. She, like me, and many other postdocs and young faculty, was living solo. I don’t have hard numbers, but this is roughly the norm within my broader circle. In 2016, she attended a conference in Denmark…

  • [Learning Data Science] WQU Applied Data Science Lab Project 2

    I want to document the skills that I am learning from my WQU Applied Data Science Lab course. The course features 8 projects for instruction and experience in working with real data. This is how Project 2 went: About Project 2 Housing in Buenos Aires In Project 1, we learned how to analyze data and…

  • [Learning Data Science] WQU Applied Data Science Lab Project 1

    I want to document the skills that I am learning from my WQU Applied Data Science Lab course. The course features 8 projects for instruction and experience in working with real data. Let’s dive into my first ever Data Science project! About Project 1 ‘Housing in Mexico’ Project 1 uses data on properties for sale…

  • My story in academia (Part 2 of 2)

    Part 2: How do I feel about leaving academia? As I write this today, I am ready as ever to be leaving academia. But it took a lot of mental and emotional work to get to this point, I’d say it took about 4.5 years before I finally tendered my resignation from my tenure-track position.…

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