#ummm underbelly takes place on an alternate earth where it does actually work like this. checkmate atheists

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When/where/how/why did Sal get her doctorate

she got her ph.d in biology at johns hopkins at abt 32! she's always been obsessive about her interests and academia was a way to hunker down and study intensively on what she liked the most. i wouldn't say school was easy for her, necessarily, but she figured out how to get the grades she needed to succeed and powered through by sheer force of autism. she wanted to go into research but there were no positions available so she took an assistant teaching position as kind of a holdover til she could get something in a lab and then before she knew it she was teaching full time on a tenure track and was like oh! well. okay.