Hi, Justfloating! This isn't anything you don't already know or sense: getting your degree - any degree - from "prestigious university" is the metaphorical equivalent of obtaining a skeleton key. "Justfloating, graduate of Prestigious University" will open all sorts of doors for you for the rest of your life. Fulfillment and happiness may not be behind most of those doors, but at least you'll be able to open them relatively easily.

You're paying your "dues" to enter an exclusive club. Once you've got your membership card, you never have to look back if you don't want.

Best of all, "Prestigious University Graduate" gives you a wonderful excuse to either keep moving or settle at a comfortable distance from problematic family.