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[King Zultan]

Huzza third times a charm and the doughnut worked, hopefully I can get the other spares fixed.

If you get a new tire and it also goes flat, just know that I told you so :p

But I can't afford new ones. *sadness*

[Flying Teasets]

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[dragdeler]

I want a do over for sunday , I want my sunday .

[Vector]

I think I'm going to quit my PhD program. There's no reason whatsoever for me to be in it.

Universities are basically worthless.

[Great Order]

Are you going through some shit right now?

If you are, might be an idea to ask to have it put on hold if you can. Regardless, I wish you luck Vec!

[TD1]

From my experience PhDs are hard and everyone's tempted to throw in the towel at some point.

I'd like to point out that they're not worthless, however. I've developed many skills over the past two or three years which I find invaluable.

If it's not for you, it's not for you. But yea, don't despair for the sake of despair.

[Vector]

Yeeeeees, I'm going through some shit right now and I'm beginning to genuinely detest my advisor, university teaching, and the college town where I live. I want to clarify that what I said was worthless was "the university as a concept," rather than the degree.

I can't do much better in terms of explanation, I'm in my feelings.

[Great Order]

I'm genuinely unsure how PhDs work since I'm not planning on doing one, but is it possible to transfer them to another university or nah?

[Vector]

You can, but at my age that's a pretty bad idea.

[GadgetPatch]

For whatever it's worth, as a med school dropout, leaving my degree was a call I'm glad I made. But it's also a source of a *kind* of regret?

There's always going to be a part of me that loved the teaching and research I was able to do, and wishes I could be making a difference in the field now... but I also think walking away from academia gave me the time and space to get my life in order, in a way I simply wouldn't have had the spoons and time for otherwise. Assess what was really important to me, and how I could be doing that with my life and time. I'm glad for the skills and understanding I came away from it with, and they haven't *gone* anywhere, or been a waste of my youth. I just use them differently now.

I won't air out my grief about the academic system as a whole; different situation, and probably not the place. I chafed at the for-profit aspects of my institution, and the flaws that seemed baked-in and impossible to meaningfully change from within. But I also valued the cultivation being done by people there; people who cared about the future, and the continuity of human art and experience and knowledge and all that.

It's complicated. The institution could suck ass, but it's work felt vital and human, I guess. I don't have better words.

Anyway, my life didn't end when I left med school at near 30, but it was the end of the path I'd been on. And there's good and bad to that. But I like my life and my work now, and that's enough.

Maybe your route forward will be clearer after some rest and a good meal, and some time to cool off. Wishing you all the best there.

[Eric Blank]

Man I regret flunking out of college too. I want more than anything to go back and prove i can do it, and actually make friends and have a good time, but I need to escape my housing situation and come up with finances.

[scriver]

I really regret not going yo university in the first place

[Loud Whispers]

I really regret going to university in the first place

[hector13]

I had a breakdown at university, but I was there for the wrong reasons anyway.

I met some lifelong friends there though.

[BlackFlyme]

I hardly remember college at all.