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⌈ Secret Post #3228 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Do you regret going to college?

[sarillia]

I don't regret going in the first place but I regret not giving up on what it felt like I was supposed to do in favor of what works better for me sooner.

Re: Do you regret going to college?

[(Anonymous)]

Good for you for figuring out what does work for you! It's more important that you actually did figure it out. There's such a push towards college for everything and everyone, even when it doesn't actually fit everything and everyone. But you get so much push-back when you suggest that.

Re: Do you regret going to college?

[sarillia]

Thanks. I'm actually still taking classes, just slowed down to part time while living at home. But my original plan of eventually going for a doctorate? Hahaha, no.

I completely agree with you though. It's especially ridiculous to price college as a luxury and treat it as a basic requirement at the same time.

Re: Do you regret going to college?

[(Anonymous)]

I know someone who has been 'working' on her PhD for 10 years now, I think? The 'working' part is nominal - she didn't do any work on her thesis for two or three years, she's got a full-time job out on the world, and her supervisor has now retired. For some reason her committee hasn't pulled the plug on her, and after several years of hiatus, she's now on only the second draft of her thesis and thinks it must be almost done.

And she just CANNOT LET IT GO, but she can't seem to bring herself to do it, either. And I think it would be so much healthier if she could just decide to walk away from it, but she's got so much expectation wound up in it and feels she deserves it, and yet, geez I think her original data is now stale-dated and probably needs to rehauled, and none of that would be impossible if she really wanted it and did the work. But she wants the degree, even though she just seems to be done with the work. Like I said, I wish she'd just let it go. If you've let it die on the vine like that for so many years, you need to ask why?

Sorry, tl;dr, but I think she'd feel better and be a lot happier if she just ditched the albatross and got on with her life. Nothing against pursuing your dreams - if that's what you want, then go get it! - but she seems to be pursuing a heavy boulder that she doesn't want to lift.

Re: Do you regret going to college?

[(Anonymous)]

No but I wish I had thought out my career better. I was a history major with an asian studies and equine science background which helps me not at all. I crashed and burned in grad school and never finished. I was going to be a teacher but the outlook where I live isn't that great at the moment.

I'm thinking of doing Teach for America though and seeing if I can finally finish my degree and get real experience in the classroom. We will see. After battling with depression caused because I didn't finish my degree it feels worthwhile for me to pursue this.