{"id":2187,"date":"2018-10-29T11:19:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/my-milestones-in-academia\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:53:44","slug":"my-milestones-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/my-milestones-in-academia","title":{"rendered":"My milestones in academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"2cae\"><em>This story has been shared\u00a0by prominent Twitter personality Witty Academic Librarian (<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WittyAcademic_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WittyAcademic_\"><em>@WittyAcademic_<\/em><\/a><em>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"2cae\">I attended a distance learning library science program, and in order to get the full experience, I wanted to be engaged with faculty to some extent. I played the academic game, as if I were enrolled in a doctoral program and asked a couple of the faculty in the department whether there were any research projects they would like further assistance with.<\/p>\n<p id=\"b7c0\">I did not have any publications at this point, but I did have nine or ten local and regional conference presentations under my belt, and I thought this was an advantage for me (Thanks Dr. M and Dr. K!). I inquired about their research, told them about my own research interests, and thus, a collaboration was born. This collaboration has allowed me to serve as a\u00a0<em>paid\u00a0<\/em>research assistant on two occasions (once as a graduate student, and once as a post-graduate). I was able to collaborate with five faculty in this department, resulting in four peer-reviewed publications and one non-refereed publication.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0dc9\">My first first-authored publication (in collaboration with my advisor) was really neat to work on. It took around a year and a half from start (IRB submission) to finish (reviewer comments). It definitely made the amount of work worth it to see it included in the journal. I wanted to continue my work with psychology, so luckily I was able to examine a certain behavior with a psychological theory AND examine the behaviors of psychologists specifically. I think the most special moment, for me, was having this work accepted at a conference (before the manuscript was complete). This validated that the work I was doing was legitimate, and it also helped to reduce some of those impostor syndrome feelings us academics like to pretend we don\u2019t have.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0dc9\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive\" style=\"height: 250px; width: 700px;\" title=\"Witty Academic Librarian\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/RSO%20author%20image%20-%20Witty%20Academic%20Librarian_2.png\" alt=\"Witty Academic Librarian\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%227299%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Witty%20Academic%20Librarian%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Witty%20Academic%20Librarian%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%20%5C%22%5C%22Researcher%20Stories%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story has been shared\u00a0by prominent Twitter personality Witty Academic Librarian (@WittyAcademic_). I attended a distance learning library science program, and in order to get the full experience, I wanted to be engaged with faculty to some extent. 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