Sticky Teeth

[gin_and_satori]

I really hate e-mailing professors and asking for things, even little things like a few moments of their time. It takes me forever. I get up and pace the room for no reason at all. My hands sweat. When I'm done, I tend to sigh really loud like someone opening a soda can. It makes me nervous as hell. Trying to talk intelligently about academics with

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Sticky Teeth

[anonymous]

What will happen? You will start out in academia a nervous young man, angry that you are frequently mistaken for a student. You will feel mild unease that some of your students are in fact older than you. At faculty parties, you will occasionally laugh at jokes you do not find funny just for something to do