Breaking up with programs

[Queen of Kale]

Well, I made my decision a few weeks ago, I'm not a particularly emotional person, but I still teared up when I wrote my last letter to the last POI I was turning down.  As has been said, you're stressed, you're run down, you've been forging a relationship with these people (and I mean a working relationship, not a romantic one, I don't think anyone has that confused), and you've been trying each place on for size by really imagining a life in each place.  I didn't cry over every email sent by any means, but when I had to choose between my last two schools and I knew that both would be incredible but very different roads for me (and my husband) - sending that last letter was a little strange.  It's rare that I've imagined a road not taken so completely and for so long and it becomes like saying goodbye to something real, something that's already happened.