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The oral defense of a topic is a romantic academic ideal that is overdue for a comeback.

• lores 4y ago
  That would cause big problems with students on the spectrum or suffering from ADHD or social anxiety, which in our field is... a lot of them. I am a lot less anxious now in my 40s than I was in my early 20s, but a public talk is enough to make me lose sleep for a week, despite having done it dozens of times. In my 20s it would have been an impossible task.
  • 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
    What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I don't like public speaking and I have ADHD. I still wish I had to do this more because it makes me stronger. The hard truth is that employers don't care about your anxiety.
    • lores 4y ago
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