FailedOn my third driving test, I turned right out of the test centre, reached a pedestrian crossing, attempted to run over a little old lady, was prevented from doing so by the examiner grabbing the wheel, then proceeded straight back to the test centre.
The drive home was very, very quiet. I've never felt such a complete failure.
What have you failed at?
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chthonic, Fri 5 Jan 2007, 10:21)
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Failed to do a PhDGot a place at a certain university in St Louis that thinks it's better than the Ivy League. Within a week of arriving my PhD supervisor assaulted me. He did so repeatedly over the next few months. My roommate told me to suck it up and deal. Eventually I made a formal complaint, which was ignored by the university. I left the US and returned home in £1000s of debt for having moved continents twice in 9 months. I later found out my supervisor had been knobbing my roommate.
That was over 2.5 years ago. I'm still in severe debt, and my academic career is over. It's all I ever wanted to do from the age of 3, and now I'm a secretary. Every time I read a news story about my subject, I feel like a total loser. And I'm convinced my scientist friends wonder why I'm hanging round with them when I still haven't been able to get a place at a British university.
Maybe I should have sucked it up and dealt.
(, Sat 6 Jan 2007, 19:46, Reply)
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