Today's guest blogger is Anonymous. Anonymous has a PhD in chemistry and recently completed a postdoc at an unnamed national lab. She is leaving science after realizing that her interests lie elsewhere, but it’s all good. She’s interested in community organizing, the bugs in our neural programming, and the ways we transform our painful experiences into growth and value.
We hadn’t been friends for very long. In retrospect, a few warning signs had been quietly visible, but I generally don’t go into friendships expecting toxic behavior. Which is why it surprised me when, over lunch, he explained to me how I’d gotten into college.
“Maybe it’s because you’re a female.”
Surprise and anger rose inside of me, but since we were friends, I decided to reply very carefully. “What do you mean by that?”
“I’m saying that soooometimes, women and minorities are held to a lower standard in admissions.”
