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2026-04-28 23:54 UTC

@jessamyn@glammr.us I worked with all three of them! Stilling gave me my kindest evaluation of my Hampshire career, which was basically “You worked really hard, and 90s neuroscience sure has a lot of unknowns.” (I had many other supportive evals that weren’t “You worked hard, but this isn’t the field for you.”)

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@jessamyn@glammr.us 2026-04-29 00:51

@JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com I loved Neil, got along with Mark just fine, and respected Steve but we had some conflicts. Having all those mustache/beardo men on my committee about singular they pronouns was wild. I also had a "minor" in creative writing and was lucky enough to take a class with David Foster Wallace who taught for a semester at Amherst (where he had graduated from a few years earlier iirc). Hampshire worked out for me (in a way high school never did), but it was a crapshoot if it would.

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