@sarahfischerm: I literally have a dish towel that says “motivated by spite” 🤭 #professor #motivatedbyspite #gradschool #phdgraduate

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chanelle_thecatlady
Chanelle🎀🐱 :
If this ain’t me…7th grade history teacher told me I’d thank her one day for the B she gave me. I just decided I’d never get a B in any class ever again, and I haven’t🤷🏻‍♀️PhD student in educational research now🤣
2026-10-02 06:15:25
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sofiyawanmohdnor
Sofiyawanmn :
Oh wow you can teach a class on content creation? Pretty cool. That won’t happen from I come from 😂
2026-10-01 10:03:48
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itsofficialy_me
Luci 🤍 :
My dissertation has an acknowledgment section I call my diss track, inspired by those who told me I couldn’t 💅
2026-09-20 17:29:28
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sabriasparrow
Sabria Sparrow :
You can't get tenure! (Motivation 😂🤍)
2026-09-20 15:25:42
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leader__rey
Rey :
Yea and you’ll never date me
2026-09-20 19:25:21
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mosilv21
Moriah :
I love women in SPITE
2026-09-20 18:07:05
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omi.macaroni
namo :
i love your vids! also where did you get your pants in slide 7?👀
2026-09-27 14:31:58
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afterlanguage
teddy :
this is soo cool!! what are some of the classes you’re teaching rn?
2026-09-25 05:27:10
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the_sociology_cat
The_sociology_cat :
I love this! I was told I’d never go to college, that I’d die by 25, that I wasn’t smart and much more. I went to college excelled, became a director in marketing decided to change, got advanced degrees, then became a Professor at a R1 institution and am a leading expert in the field of trust networks with a focus on the troubled teen industry helping to end systemic child abuse and programs that destroy families both here in the US and across the world. Domestically a 23 billion dollar profit 100k - 220k youth affected each year kidnapped from their homes, but yes F the haters. I am alive, I thrived, I am now educating the youth and trying to change the world.
2026-09-20 18:55:16
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orangesarepurple
fruitbox :
I also got my PhD in spite of the secondary school teacher who told me I'm the type of person to end up in prison 🥰
2026-09-20 15:03:29
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oliveoilcalico
oliveoilcalico :
same. was voted least studious of my senior class. now a prof at an r1. haha
2026-09-20 18:05:24
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danyellelindaaaa
danyelle 🩵🪩🫧 :
not as cool as you but I walked in late to my 7th grade ELA class and my teacher made a snide remark about it. I made a point to show up 5 minutes early from that point on…that teacher is now the principal at the school I teach at 💀😂
2026-09-20 17:48:23
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takestwototango.sd
Diaries of Tango :
THIS! I had a professor tell me “people who look like you don’t get doctorates.” Well, I’m a 25 year old professor in my last year of my doctorate before heading off to internship.
2026-09-20 18:52:05
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stretchyspaghetti
Spaghetti :
My 7th grade math teacher said I would never be taken seriously because I was “too sensitive.” I sent him a picture of me graduating from Stanford with the subject “you were wrong.”
2026-09-20 21:39:08
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kelsimm1
kelsimm :
I was just thinking earlier today about how much spite has motivated me to continue my studies lolol currently 18 months away from being BA, JD, DCL, MCJ, LLM, otw to a SJD. And it’s all because I love writing, English, criminology, the law, okay basically the humanities in general.
2026-09-21 19:32:36
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laurahirshy
⋆˙⟡ laura :
I’m dying at this being a common experience (I was told I was “average” by my HS physics teacher and now I’m a chemical engineering asst prof)
2026-09-20 19:36:23
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lazydaisyreads26
Nicole Moses :
I once had a PCP tell me he wouldn’t prescribe me anti anxiety meds to help with the transition of going back to school (I was 4mpp) because “being a mom should be enough” 🙃 I kid you not a got a whole degree and graduated with my associate’s with a 4.0 and as president of my class just to spite that man.
2026-09-20 17:49:30
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lyssaprincessa
Lyssa :
The world runs on spite and lust imo
2026-09-20 16:37:01
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mamaprof
felisavr :
Fellow prof motivated by SPITE
2026-09-20 17:19:21
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kori26147
Kori :
I’m literally writing a PhD seminar paper out of spite right now because I found a cool thing in one of the assigned readings and the prof brushed me off in class discussion and now I need the whole damn world to know how cool my thing is
2026-09-20 23:41:03
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maggiewilksbell
maggiewilksbell :
sometimes the spite is all that keeps me going for real.
2026-09-20 17:37:38
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prof_bdb
prof_bdb :
Been there. that stack of rejection letters I referred to previously for my first academic job search motivated me to become the leading scholar in my field globally.
2026-09-21 03:00:34
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litbrett
LitBrett :
I 100% fueled my lit PhD on spite.
2026-09-20 19:09:24
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redheadedsnippet_
Redheaded Snippet :
I’m relatively sure this is true for 90% of people getting PhDs (I had a guy when I was 16 tell me I’d only go to college for an MRS. degree)
2026-09-20 15:11:53
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borahaekkook
Kaitlynne :
Wait I love this and am using this as encouragement for my PhD apps!!
2026-09-20 17:42:45
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