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Academic life can be a joyful and an immensely collaborative experience that nourishes the mind and the soul, and also the reverse: lonely and tough. The flights I have experienced so far in academia have taught me much about the need to develop a path that aligns with my personal values and goals, and one that may not mirror the dominant paths I observe around me.
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Budge, K. (2014). Finding Pockets of Agency. In: Lemon, N., Garvis, S. (eds) Being “In and Out”. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-830-5_7
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