Yeah, I think sometimes if you try to meet goals other people set for you on their timescale (or the timescale you think they have), you just end up setting yourself back in the end. It's like when C and I felt pressured to take the usual 5 courses per semester by the parents, even though that felt overwhelming. We did it anyway to try to meet expectations, and were not successful. This had the effect of wasting money, creating a ton of unnecessary distress, and having to retake two classes because C fell apart at the end and missed the finals.