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Originally Posted by InRealLife45
hankster, I asked her if she thought I might be successful in graduate school, and she said "yes." I said why? she said "because youre human and you have potential." i said okay, but what is it specifically about me that makes you think that I could be successful?" and she basically just kept saying the only reason I'd fail is if I wanted to, bc I had potential bc I was human and alive.
So she got tired of me asking her to elaborate on something specific to me, more than my species and beating heart, which I share with everyone else living on the planet. So she got mad.
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Thats i think a good example of you being the expert on you. You know you are intelligent enough to succeed in graduate school - you dont need her to tell you that. She cant predict what you would do during those 2 or 3 years. Those would be your decisions, your challenges, your choices.
About ten years ago, i was thinking of going back to graduate school and told my family. My brother told me the faculty would laugh at me. Hes a psychotherapist. You can have that response if you prefer. My t is so mad at him he could spit.