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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a disturbed poster who's been active on SDN and Reddit for 15 years now after having failed out of med school at UVM in the '90s and Ross in 2007ish. She is now 58 years old, unemployed, a quarter of a million dollars in debt, and keeps retaking the MCAT (and getting terrible scores) because she is pathologically unable to accept that completing med school is never going to happen. Because she got a decent MCAT score in 1990, so she reasons that the "next time" will be when it finally all comes back together. She has completely destroyed her entire life and achieved nothing, with her pathological inability to move on to Plan B after a setback three decades ago. I follow her ramblings out of morbid fascination but it's actually very depressing and pathetic.

I've always wondered how she ended up like this and this thread seems like the same sort of seed. Don't let this happen to your DD. At some points in life we have to turn away from the closed doors and accept that the open window leading to multiple other paths should be pursued with optimism and commitment. You sound bitter and fixated and it's probably damaging your daughter. You can do better, for her sake.[/quote]
Can you please provide a link to this person's posts? I'm so curious to read them. [/quote]

Same! I’m fascinated by this. [/quote]

PP. I don't want to link directly but if you google "slowlybutshelly" (all one word) you can see some of the old mess on SDN. She deleted the Reddit account under that name recently but Google still has some artifacts. She's resurfaced as "scooterann" on Reddit very recently--same avatar pic. A known character on the MCAT and premed subreddits. But the old SDN stuff dates from 2010-2018 and is a train wreck.[/quote]
Thank you!!![/quote]

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