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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this is ridiculous but can’t get it out of my head. I work with people who attended world class universities and while I went to an okay liberal arts college, wish I had tried harder in high school to get into a better one. I was depressed and under enormous pressure as a teenager and stopped trying, and got rejected from most schools I applied to.  I’m now in a career I love but still wonder if those college years could have been more enjoyable at a better school, that I missed out and am somehow how less worthy than those who did get in.

Most everything else in my life has turned out well. This just rankles me. I know it’s silly.[/quote]

You are working WITH people who attended "world class" universities, so think about that a bit... you worked hard and earned the same opportunity they did.  I'm always reminded of a friend who attended a tiny Christian college in the Midwest -- she was wicked smart and could have gotten into an Ivy, but she attended that college because they offered her a full ride.  She is now a doctor.  It doesn't matter where she attended college -- she was clearly good enough for medical school and good enough to be called "Doctor".[/quote]

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