in many, if not most, cases of not finishing a graduate degree, it's not that the student gives up on something s/he still wants at all; instead, people tend to reach places where they realize they want different things than they wanted previously
Or, in my case, it was more that I realized that most of the things I had really wanted from that life-- smart friends, intellectual challenge-- I was finding elsewhere, and that the only things it turned out I could only find in academia were the things I had never really wanted to begin with.
Which isn't to say that I don't have regrets about leaving when I did, but it's mostly that I regret taking so long to figure out I needed to leave.
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in many, if not most, cases of not finishing a graduate degree, it's not that the student gives up on something s/he still wants at all; instead, people tend to reach places where they realize they want different things than they wanted previously
Or, in my case, it was more that I realized that most of the things I had really wanted from that life-- smart friends, intellectual challenge-- I was finding elsewhere, and that the only things it turned out I could only find in academia were the things I had never really wanted to begin with.
Which isn't to say that I don't have regrets about leaving when I did, but it's mostly that I regret taking so long to figure out I needed to leave.