This book gets lots of things right about academia: things turn badly because entitled professors have way too big of an ego, steal the work of their (especially female) students, making collaborating with the military complex highly desirable for new graduates. It makes a number of good point on the epistemology and social functions of science. It also gets lots of things right about being a humanities scholar (I particularly loved how she used google to find Oda. There's a mastery to googling). And the science/engineering part is convincing enough.

Though the form is interesting (mixing different types of written records), it sometimes feels quite useless and disturbs the reading.

Overall, this is a good time travelling story, pretty funny at times, not always as immersive as one would like because of the alternative use of different types of narrative forms.