Posted by llrrrpp on August 14, 2006, at 23:18:36
Okay, I feel a little low. Many of my fellow graduate students are leaving this institution with nice jobs and post-docs, and they only ones left from my cohort are ... me and who cares? My friends are going on to greener pastures. I am left tending to the dirt fields. And I realized recently that I have been taking many people for granted, who are about to go far far away, and probably won't come back for a long time. I may see a few of them at conferences every few years, or not. And life goes on. But I'm still here. It took me several years to make any real friends here, and I only recently realized that I couldn't take these friends for granted. My experience is going to change a lot in the next month or so. I wish I had something nice to look forward to also. I just feel like a loser. stuck. Wondering whether I can be friends with those in the younger cohort without sounding like a bitter old woman.
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