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force

Mission Complete!

Nov 25, 2009 19:34

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phaselus_ille November 26 2009, 19:29:42 UTC

I passed my PhD oral exam, finally, but I'm dropping out of the program and applying for seminaries for next year to be a pastor!

force November 30 2009, 04:56:41 UTC

That's a joke, right? You aren't ditching a doctorate to go preach, right?

phaselus_ille November 30 2009, 12:11:19 UTC

Heh. I am, actually. It took a LONG time for me to figure it out, but academia is a rough lot (and the PhD is not at all self-evidently valuable, though the rest of society seems to think it is), and NOT where I am called to be. I have been patently miserable since I came to grad school in 2005-- and I thought so many people *needed* to see me succeed here that I didn't allow myself the consideration of doing anything else with myself. But the PhD exams were 1 1/2 years of utter hell, and awful as they were I think everything happens for a reason-- like the universe has to maintain some sort of equilibrium, and my fighting that out of sheer stubbornness created an equal but opposite reaction, like a tidal wave, just smothering me ( ... )

force December 2 2009, 23:28:30 UTC

Well, good luck with it. Far be it from me to deny someone their right to go off on some damn-fool idealistic crusade. Just remember that extreme thought is bad--on /both/ sides of the spectrum. Enjoy!