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May 08, 2012 13:51

"Don't apply to grad school," they said.

"It'll make you hate everything you think you love," they said.

"At least take a year off so you'll have something to look back on when you are mired in the abyss of your first year," they said.

"And if you do apply, it should be because nothing else can ever make you happy," they said. "Because you can't ( Read more... )

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i_wear_wellies May 10 2012, 19:30:24 UTC
CONGRATULATIONS!! I'm glad you didn't listen to them too. I can't imagine you'd be happy if you didn't go to grad school...

In a way this reminds me of a post on a wedding blog not too long ago, in which a girl talks about how when she and her fiance first moved in, everyone told her it was so hard, it's awful adjusting, and when she said it was fine she'd get a chorus of "you'll see...." Which is absurd. Everyone's different, which means their experiences will be too. And for you? Knowing you, you'd regret it if you didn't go to grad school. So I'm proud of you too, for not listening to them and being true to yourself :D

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