Vaporized

To sputnik and those of us in a similar boat:
In another life I interviewed for med school. I told one interviewer about how I felt constantly intimidated during the process because, upon visiting any given school, I inevitably learned that 90% of the other folk invited to interview that day were from undergraduate institutions more reputable than mine (often significantly so!). The interviewer responded that he had felt the same way while he was interviewing, in fact he had felt intimidated even after being accepted. During a party for newly matriculated students, he was standing at a urinal next to an Ivy League peer who was lecturing about the virtues of his undergraduate education. While he was pissing on his shoes. Problem solved.

To sputnik and those of us in a similar boat:
In another life I interviewed for med school. I told one interviewer about how I felt constantly intimidated during the process because, upon visiting any given school, I inevitably learned that 90% of the other folk invited to interview that day were from undergraduate institutions more reputable than mine (often significantly so!). The interviewer responded that he had felt the same way while he was interviewing, in fact he had felt intimidated even after being accepted. During a party for newly matriculated students, he was standing at a urinal next to an Ivy League peer who was lecturing about the virtues of his undergraduate education. While he was pissing on his shoes. Problem solved.

"You should consider going to Harvard, I hear it has a great program."

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I remember when I was younger (early college) and wanted a PhD, my uncle looked at me and said something to the extent of "We'll have to pay for more school?" Nevermind the fact that my family stopped helping me with tuition my second year of school (not for any bad reason; they couldn't help after awhile), nevermind the fact that my uncle is not my parent and therefore is not obligated to pay anything, but he still acted like I was putting a burden on him.

Then there was my roommate during my application process, continuously making comments about how she was "soo glad" she was going to be done with school and that I was crazy to want to stay in school. We'll just ignore the fact that she was applying to MS programs too until her boyfriend refused to follow her to her dream school and she didn't get into the one school he wanted her to go to. She's now working at Best Buy while he's in school (not knocking off Best Buy employees, I just wouldn't make such a huge life decision for someone I had just started dating).

"You should consider going to Harvard, I hear it has a great program."

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"You should consider going to Harvard, I hear it has a great program."

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