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...in case this diary draws any interest, my most painful realization is that I'll never get to attend graduate school. It's pretty tame compared to everything else that could be called a painful realization.
I suppose my realization is actually just a long-festering regret that I didn't go when I had the chance in the late 1990s.
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by AmericanFactotum on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:27:18 PM PDT
i just deferred graduate school for a year - you have just made me determined to go next year no matter what.
thanks.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model which makes the existing model obsolete."-Buckminster Fuller
by georg on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:50:18 PM PDT
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Best of luck in your endeavors.
by AmericanFactotum on Fri May 09, 2008 at 04:02:29 PM PDT
by AmericanFactotum on Sat May 10, 2008 at 12:05:00 PM PDT
either at u michigan or columbia. pretty neat stuff...
by georg on Tue May 13, 2008 at 11:12:15 AM PDT
...were you accepted and then deferred, or have you not yet applied?
by AmericanFactotum on Tue May 13, 2008 at 12:38:43 PM PDT
accepted to both, deferred michigan. columbia won't defer (it's 54 credits in 12 months - way intense) but they told me that most people get re-accepted. i'm going to take the gmat and apply to the dual mba/sustainable systems program at michigan, since i've got the extra time.
we'll see. should be awesome!
by georg on Thu May 15, 2008 at 11:05:15 AM PDT
A friend of mine from graduate school worked in industry for years before he came back. He earned a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, so it can be done. Formulate a plan and go for it. Warmest regards, Doc.
Sometimes I feel like Robert Louis Stevenson created me. -6.25, -6.05
by Translator on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:59:30 PM PDT
I dated a woman who decided, after years of getting nowhere in sports medicine, handled other jobs inbetween, got a job as a lab tech, made it into grad school at 35, and is expecting to get a PhD in neuroscience by her 40th birthday.
You can still go to grad school. Don't give up hope!
HRC, on the other hand, will never be president.
by Robobagpiper on Fri May 09, 2008 at 04:23:22 PM PDT
I should have graduated from college in 1990, but didn't due to family crises and my own immaturity. I got a full-time job in retail thinking I would never get my BACHELOR's. Then, in 2001, I got into gear and took courses online through U. Phoenix and got a B.S. in Management with honors
I let a few more years go by, but I got in gear again, took my GMAT, and now am applying to Business School. Several years ago I would never though that possible.
I don't know the details of your own story, but I feel you can never let the dream die!
All stressed out and no one to choke. -6.00, -6.31
by billssha on Fri May 09, 2008 at 04:24:33 PM PDT
wide narrow
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