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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  3488 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A post where I share things I don't normally share with people.

That is a great idea. If I have time tomorrow I'm going to try for it. Hoping to go for a run and I have a co-op reflection meeting in the morning so we'll see. If not then it'll have to wait until Thursday. I'm pretty convinced the reason they operate that way now is because of an increase in people seeking help, while their funding has been stagnant from the University.

    The people that tell you that life is the best in college must not have done much after...

Not necessarily true. Some of them are my cousins and their fiances/wives/etc. and these people are Doctors, CPAs, Engineers, and so on and so forth who from what I can tell are living great lives. It's weird hearing it from them. The rest are Professors and Administrative peole here. I'll send you a pm sometime tonight!



thenewgreen  ·  3488 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Not necessarily true. Some of them are my cousins and their fiances/wives/etc. and these people are Doctors, CPAs, Engineers, and so on and so forth who from what I can tell are living great lives. It's weird hearing it from them. The rest are Professors and Administrative peole here. I'll send you a pm sometime tonight!
I know and interact with a lot of doctors, professionals etc and they're like any other group, some live full lives and others don't. A lot of people over romanticize college life because of the free time they had, the amount of options in front of them etc but they completely and conveniently forget what a ball of nerves they were.

You're a smart and capable person so I don't mean to insult you when I say that most men or women at your stage in life aren't as well adjusted as they will be later in life. You just aren't. I certainly wasn't. I was soooo insecure.

Was college fun? Hell yeah, it was. Was it also emotionally trying? -Y-E-S. I recall standing on a cliff at Glacier National Park and thinking, "I can make this all stop and people might think it was an accident."

I'm so glad I didn't.

It gets better. If you will it, it is no dream. -dude.

I'll be on the lookout for that PM

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