{"id":593,"date":"2016-07-17T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T13:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2016-07-17T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T13:02:04","slug":"overcoming-a-sense-of-academic-failure-event-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/17\/overcoming-a-sense-of-academic-failure-event-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure – Event Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of us on the Labmosphere team recently attended an event here at Oxford University titled, “Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure.” It was a great discussion with graduates from many fields discussing their feelings of inadequacy and\/or failure with highly successful academics at Oxford who, believe it or not, have also experienced these same feelings. Notes were gathered and compiled by Emily Troscianko, who organized the event, and are available for download here<\/a>. Hopefully some of the thoughts, quotes, and resources that came out of the discussion can be useful to those who couldn’t attend the event, both within and outside of the Oxford graduate community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two of us on the Labmosphere team recently attended an event here at Oxford University titled, “Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure.” It was a great discussion with graduates from many fields discussing their feelings of inadequacy and\/or failure with highly successful academics at Oxford who, believe it or not, have also experienced these same … Continue reading Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure – Event Notes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,51],"coauthors":[38],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7z5Ki-9z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":558,"url":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/26\/in-search-of-truth-and-happiness\/","url_meta":{"origin":593,"position":0},"title":"In Search of Truth and Happiness","date":"June 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently found myself at the King's Arms pub at Oxford, across the street from the newly opened Weston Library, where works such as the Gutenberg Bible and Dorothy Hodgkin's drawings of the structure of penicillin are on display. 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