Burnt-Out Prof @burnout_Prof

I have just enough energy for candy crush and blaming myself for going to graduate school and starting this slow torture of academia.... #PhTIRED #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

Dear #PhD, #Masters and #Teacher #Academic friends, Please help me find/recommend ways to combat burn out. With the holidays coming up I would like to be “present” and in the moment with my #friends and #family, but my head space is occupied with work....😕 #AcademicChatter

My #anxiety would say: “Remember that time you almost shit yourself while giving a 3hr lecture? You thought it was a stomach bug.... it was me!!” Insert evil laugh #AcademicTwitter #academiclife #teacherproblems #PhD

The PhD Story @thephdstory

7 years ago

If your anxiety could talk, what would it say? #AcademicTwitter

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Intended to start class prep 3hrs ago.... Ate a burrito instead #teacherproblems #AcademicTwitter #notsorry

It’s another 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Monday! #teacherproblems #AcademicTwitter #academiclife #ugh

Where is the #academic #pause button?? #teacherproblems #academiclife #phd #MakeItStop

Coffee @ 5am: gearing up for 9am class Wine @ 5pm: gearing up for 9pm #bedtime, #academiclife

Two #manuscripts waiting for final edits prior to submission..... I am so over re-reading them that I want to write “#TAG YOU’RE IT!” in the cover letter! #AcademicTwitter #writing #ReviewerNo2 #AcademicChatter

So mentally exhausted with a 2pg “to-do” list that I decided to pour a big glass of #wine and binge watch TV.... #academiclife #teacherproblems

@thephdstory

@ProfOfSarcasm I completely understand!!

My current attention span is 5mins.... #squirrel #academiclife #IShouldBeWriting

@grumprof ALL THE TIME!!!

Finally sit down to grade papers - can’t find a #red #pen.... I search my entire work bag and decide the grading gods evidently do not want my sacrifice tonight.... Then I check my purse 😐😒 I don’t ask why, but there... next to my chapstick... a red pen #academiclife #teacher

I’ve been carrying around #papers to #grade for about a month.... they’re a part of me now, I will never let go!

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

Drives to work aimlessly.... Not sure what I have to teach today Walks into office, looks at syllabus... “Quiz” (haven’t written it - don’t know where last years is - class is in 20mins!) 🤬🤬🤬🤬 #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

Opens manuscript reads title... . . . (Scrolls through document - slowly) . . . Goes back up to title page Deletes “The” . . . ✅reviewed/edited Closes document #AcademicTwitter

10,651 #academic things to do today... Spends 4.5hrs making #coffee, #tweeting and checking e-mail .... Only 10,650 things to do now! #academicTwitter #academicChatter

Sunday AM: I have the whole day to catch up on grading 🤗 PM: I’ve binge watched my entire DVR, 1hr more then start grading 😐 Later PM: ugh where did the day go, 🤔 1hr more then grades Monday AM: So much grading to do... WTF did I do yesterday!! 🤬🤬