impishlilhellcat
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ORIGINAL: impishlilhellcat It's a grad school thing. Like whether or not to reapply and go back for the Ph.D... It's kinda of a complicated situation and there's a lot I would be faced with on a daily basis. I don't even know if I'm strong enough to face that every day. I don't even know if this is what I want, but I started it and I'd like to see it through. Go apply. You have almost three months before the next semester starts. Which gives you three months to decide if you really want to go. If you do, great. If you don't, all you've lost is the application fee. In addition the present economy is not great, you would do better to stay in school and improve your cv. If you make it through the PhD program, wonderful. Even if you don't, you can list yourself as having a Master's plus. I already got the Master's and I actually won't even lose the application fee. The situation is that I was in the Ph.D. program. I ended up taking my Master's and leaving because I was going through some emotional things dealing with an ex wasn't making the situation any better. In fact I think was probably pretty close to just completely losing it and he didn't understand the concept of staying away from me and that constantly being in my face or picking fights with me wasn't making the situation any better for me. In order to regain my sanity I left. Just packed and left. I'm in a completely different place now I have some industry experience, which has been immensely helpful and I could probably go back and do my general exam and the few classes I need in a year and get on in research and be done in about three years. Essentially all I really have to do now is reapply to the program before April, write an extremely compelling letter to the administration board and get three glowing letters of recommendation and I have to take the GRE I wasn't required to do that the first time.. I still have to face that ex every day if I go back. I still have feelings for him, but we have both moved on with our lives. He's dating another graduate student, which is life, but I just don't know if seeing him everyday is going to make me relive the fact that we had a child together whom didn't survive everyday or even how seeing him with someone new will affect me. But I started at that school I got halfway through and I would really like to finish what I started simply for myself.
< Message edited by impishlilhellcat -- 10/28/2009 1:02:18 PM >
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