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To add to this, also think about why you didn't thrive in the academic environment and get a PhD in 8 years, like some do. If you go back, what will be different?

I think for me, it was the boredom. There was the busywork handed out by the teachers, and the slacker culture that permeated the small state university I went to. If I hadn't been so bored, perhaps I could have stayed on the path.



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