# @feministscience on Instagram - **Type:** Image - **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbXPtD9Dbfn - **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68760727-feministscience-instagram - **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/007761d5e3.jpg - **Posted:** 2026-07-29T04:22:06.000+00:00 - **Account Owner:** Feminist Science (@feministscience) — https://gondola.cc/feministscience ## Caption STOP Pushing women to find their spouse in college. A woman at undergrad Cornell University in 2014, one of the highest-ranking universities in the US, admitted: "I would be the first to admit that graduating single sometimes feels like a failure of sorts. But the truth is, a failure would have been to not play at all —to not go on horrible dates, to not fall hopelessly in love and to not make a fool of ourselves. Armed with these experiences, we will tackle the next step knowing more about ourselves than we could have ever hoped to learn" I indeed was in college in 2014 when there was a lot of cultural pressure to pair up in college & grad school (I also was the only women in my PhD cohort graduating single LOL) and did indeed feel some sense of failure DESPITE EARNING A PHD in engineering. How many college tours had I taken where they told me that this college had a high rate of marriage among alumni? Read more about SCARCITY MINDSET https://feministscientist.substack.com/p/leaning-into-scarcity-mindset?utm_medium=web #womeninstem #womeninsteam #feministscience #feminism #sciencefeminism #feministsciencestudies #academicfeminism #singleladiesofscience #highereducation #singleover30 Cornell Daily Sun Article: https://web.archive.org/web/20140828221252/http://cornellsun.com/blog/2014/04/24/kussman-on-graduating-single/ ## Stats - **Views:** 0 - **Likes:** 8 - **Shares:** 0 - **Comments:** 2 ## Tags feministscience, feministsciencestudies, womeninsteam, highereducation, sciencefeminism, feminism, womeninstem, academicfeminism, singleladiesofscience, singleover30 --- Copyright (c) Gondola