Vanessa
@vanessainstem
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She/her 🇧🇷🇹🇼🇺🇸🏳️🌈 Air quality scientist & mathematician. CUNY ➡️ MIT ➡️UUtah (PhDing 👩🏻💻) Clean Air Kits discount in link below
Joined August 2020
Have used the AirFanta 3Pro enough to give a review of the product! This thread includes my thoughts on this air purifier, which I’ve used during travel (packed in my luggage, in hotel, & at an academic conference) and in my office.
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finding out i have a non-zero h-index has made my year
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basically school was hard for me and i was bad at it & I also just hated it. i still hate it. i never went back & prob never will. if you’re good at it or want to be good at it that’s great but I always want to Scream from the rooftops : that is not the only way for a life to go
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ok seeing ppl do sort of an Academia Grind Inspo thing w this & so i feel compelled to clarify that i dropped out of school when i was 18 bc I was so depressed that my body and mind legit broke down like I started wearing a neon green wig bc i couldn’t wash my hair for months And
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i was at an Ivy League alumni Halloween party and someone recognized me from Threads i forgot to tell u guys but i found it amusing. I had never been and never expected to be recognized from Threads, but yea Call me “Gigglypuff from Threads” from here on out
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Bird people of twitter, what kind of bird is my feather from? Found in Harvard Yard so not very wild. Looks like potentially a pheasant from google images. Maybe a Harvard turkey?
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I’m back, Cambridge! Almost got blown away by the wind this morning. Seeing @arianaelena97 soon, then a bunch of my MIT friends ❤️☕️
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Just had to google how to multiply scalar and vector in MATLAB. Cursed syntax.
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when i write "we" in a paper, i'm referring to myself and the voices.
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twitter is such an evil evil place but bluesky is kind of boring which is almost worse
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In academia, we have intense arguments about books we someday plan to read.
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what’s wrong babe you’ve barely touched your potential even though all your elementary teachers really liked you and said you were gifted and that you were going to do great things
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Can't believe as a kid i thought 21 year olds had their lives figured out
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Professors: “no extensions” Also Professors: “dear editors, due to unforeseen circumstances, my manuscript is going to be several years late”
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every job is either 8 hours of getting exposed to cancer causing chemicals or 8 hours of staring at a microsoft excel sheet
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I hate when I talk about being so lonely it’s physically painful and someone comes along talking about how they only have their husband or kids etc. to rely on. I haven’t been held or had someone to bring me a cup of tea in five and a half years. Show some kindness or be quiet.
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already have a masters degree, already ran a marathon, have gotten and grown out bangs multiple times, almost moved to a foreign country and then dramatically decided to stay at the last minute…. literally what is left for me to do for attention
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