Posted by greywolf on April 10, 2006, at 10:21:26
In reply to Re: no uni - no job, posted by SLS on April 10, 2006, at 9:05:27
Doug,
You have to sit back and think about how you've gotten to where you are right now. I think that, usually, people don't wake up after 4 years and have an epiphany that their failure to reach important objectives is due solely to anti-depressants. In fact, I think it's most often the exact opposite: as we go along striving to reach our goals and it becomes harder and harder to achieve those goals because of, for instance, congitive deficits or lethargy caused by medication, we talk to our doctors to either find something without interfering impacts or to try an augmentation strategy that may put us in the position to reach our objectives.
So, while I understand your upset, I also seen the other poster's point. And honestly, I can't imagine how you could measure all the variables in this situation because there are just too many that are completely subjective. It's wonderful that you did well in high school and got into a good university. And if it's a "top 5 university in the world," I'd imagine that everyone there also did really well in high school. That competition makes college success versus your peers more difficult by orders of magnitude, and that creates an awful lot of pressure that even effective meds may not be able to adequately address.
That's why I recommended that you let the past be the past, and seize the opportunities ahead of you. You will find in the real business world that your degreee doesn't mean much in 90% of it, and in the 10% where it matters, that just gets you in the door.
I regularly do battle with people who really believe that where they went to school somehow gives them an advantage, and those people regularly discover it doesn't matter.
And I'm happy to teach them that lesson every chance I get.
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