Also insane. ;)

Look on the bright side! At least you didn't waste 6-8 years of your life working basically minimum wage (if you're in the sciences) or less (if you're not) to get said PhD. :D

Nope, I had probably half the brains of my incoming cohort of graduate students back when I started. I'm just incredibly stubborn, and willing to work twice as hard and twice as long to get the same result. I actually think you had a good point there. :)

Well, technically I work my ass off because I love what I do. But I'm not smart, never claimed I was. ;)

You said it before I could. I'd like the opportunity to sell said soul, please.

Of course the tenure-track people would say that. They already won, so they imagine anything else. I'm with you....but today is a non-believing day.

I laugh, and then I curl up under my desk and cry a little.

Best. comment. ever.

I like this answer too.

Very well, thanks. ;)

Ha, I do exactly the opposite. I'm a fidgeter, so on the (very rare) occasions I can't fall asleep, I pick a position and freeze. Resist all urges to move my foot one inch to the left, etc. And then I'll fall asleep. Object at rest stays at rest. ;)

That looks like it belongs in a Jello mold at a Minnesota picnic.

NANOTUBES? WHERE?

This. It can very truly be something you never "get over". For all the issues with the drugs, it's very often better than without the drugs.

I do all this stuff when I'm nervous (like, all the time). Good to know that I come across as a liar.

We sometimes get those from my in-laws. But I always want to eat them. I guess I should sell them instead.

I usually try to laugh when I tell that story (I mean, I am less than five feet tall, a natural blonde, with a baby face), but as a brand-new professor, it was just heartbreaking. Why shouldn't you assume I'm a professor? At a faculty party?

Same here. Heck, my professor (not that I'm saying he was terrible, I adored him) would make a point of me being the only girl in the class (he was proud of it?). Straight up through most of grad school, I was "the girl". I've been asked if I was some other professor's daughter.

Bingo. I get letters from our disability services office requesting accommodations for those those who need them. I don't even know what the disabilities are, most of the time — that's confidential between the student and the disabilities office, but those accommodations are always granted.

As both a woman who was in that boat, and a professor of said subject: YEP. No one's entitled to the class makeup they would like, so you go and you learn the subject, regardless of who's in the class.