Yaaargh!

[tinabina3]

I swear to gawd, if one more person tells me what a waste of a brilliant academic mind it is for me to leave grad school, I'm gonna go ape shit.

Yes, I am bloody good at this stuff. That doesn't mean I have to do it. Unlike many academics, I am competent in the real world, too.

Goddammit.

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[tinabina3]

Umm, actually, this wasn't directed at you or any of the Paleo-Nerds at all. I'm sorry if you took offense to my post, and maybe I should have specified that I was referring to people up here at Purdue who have been making almost continual comments about what a waste I am, but if anything, all of my friends and family back home (especially the Paleo-Nerds) have been wonderfully supportive of my decision to leave grad school, even when they didn't have all the information about it (which, I'm sorry, would be impossible to do over LJ) which is why I gave my profuse thanks to everyone in an earlier post.

And by the way, the image I had of myself was also that I wanted to be an academic, but things change sometimes. Which is why I also recently posted about feeling lost and confused by the way things have turned out for me when I had thought that this was what I really wanted before I came here.

For the record, I am not now nor have I ever been the kind of person who makes veiled comments "like high school peers". I have no problem with direct confrontation. It never occurred to me that any of my friends would read this post and think I was addressing them. 'Cause that's not something I would ever consider doing.

So I apologize again for any confusion. But I have to say that it genuinely hurts me to know that you think I would do something like that.