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[laundry_queen]

I went for a semester and a half then quit. I got sick with some weird virus (I cannot remember what it was called, my dr did a zillion tests to find it) and fell too far behind, so I quit. Soon after I moved to a different town to live with my boyfriend (ended up being my dh). If I had to do it over, I'd have stayed in, somehow. Maybe cut back on courses. I'd for sure have picked something different. I was going all out in sciences, and picked more than a full course-load, plus lab time and had practically zero free time. To top it all off, I was doing it all in French, not my first language even though I was fluent, because of the gov't grants I got for taking it in French. I would have done it all in English for sure if I got a 'do over'.

I really should have gone for some sort of career counselling. I picked sciences because my parents pushed me, they thought I would make a ton of money (That was always their goal for me - other career ideas were put down with "you'll never make money with that"). I liked sciences, and was good at it, but it wasn't 100% my passion. Now I'm more aware of other choices, that I didn't even know existed back then, because of everyone (teachers too) pushing me toward science. Yep, should have gone for career counselling. D'oh.