In elementary school I was thought to be mentally disabled.
Then in high school I was told that I’d never get into college.
Next I was told I was most likely not be able to get into grad school.
Now I’m finishing my PhD and I just got offered my advisors job because she is retiring.
I accepted but now I wander if I am smart enough. My husband says I am. He’s a professor too.
My PhD will be in Animal and Avian Immunology with a minor in Nutrition.
I am lucky though because my husband is an organic chemist and he knows what it is like to struggle in the sciences.
Your best hope though is to find someone in the academic world with similar interests and see if they would be willing to mentor you. Best of luck.
Good for you! I am just starting to think about teaching college full time. I am an adjunct instructor at a local university. It is so much more rewarding than the corporate 9-5 grind. You have given me inspiration to move on my dreams.
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Your post is such an inspiration. I am finishing my MA and waiting to hear back on my PhD applications and I am on pins an needles (as well as sleep deprived trying to work on my thesis.)
Your husband is right. You are smart enough and capable enough. You have proved them all wrong so far and will continue to do so.
Best of luck!
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Learn to speak Korean fluently
Dye my hair black
Get my life organized!
graduate college
do well on my SATs
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watch inuyasha movie 1
get rid of stuff i don't need
own my dream home
Buy a Nintendo Wii
Have a totally different life by this time next year
travel the world
bring up tolerant, intelligent, self-confident children
learn the thriller dance routine
learn to sew
not care what other people think of me
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