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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2021-10-03 10:26 pm
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100 days of enemy recs: 56. The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense

It seems like the enemy, when it comes to the point in every academic's doctoral candidacy when they have to fight a snake, would be the snake. But of course that's not true - or rather, the snake is at most a metaphor (and perhaps an ally.) The true enemies here - the beloved enemies, trapped in a cycle of love and pain, loyalty and betrayal, for life - are the young academic and the institution of academia itself.

But the snake is a useful metaphor. (And also, of course, an actual snake.)

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