GoodTaste
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First I burst into uncontrollable tears. Then I stood and began to frantically shake my arms. Thank goodness I was working from home; if my colleagues had seen me, who knows what they would have thought. I wasn’t sure what I thought myself. It was my first session with my personal coach, whom I had hired to try to address the challenges I was experiencing as a new tenure-track professor. I went into the online session wanting—and expecting—immediate, concrete advice.
Source: https://www.science.org/content/article/i-felt-overwhelmed-new-professor-until-i-hired-personal-coach
As I read the phrase "I was experiencing as a new tenure-track professor", it gives me the impression that that "I" the author has already got the tenure. Do you have the same impression?
The problem is that in the closing of the essay, the author says "I don’t know whether I will get tenure." Thus I suspect whether I've correctly understood the phrase and whether the impression is incorrect.
Source: https://www.science.org/content/article/i-felt-overwhelmed-new-professor-until-i-hired-personal-coach
As I read the phrase "I was experiencing as a new tenure-track professor", it gives me the impression that that "I" the author has already got the tenure. Do you have the same impression?
The problem is that in the closing of the essay, the author says "I don’t know whether I will get tenure." Thus I suspect whether I've correctly understood the phrase and whether the impression is incorrect.
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