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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for the responses. I did go to a top grad school for my field but still have that regret that I didn’t try harder in high school out of fear of not measuring up. I always look at people’s undergrad degrees as a measure of their talent. Grad school seems a cop out way of upping ones academic credentials—undergrad admissions are frequently much harder. 
Again realize nothing more than my own insecurities. I always look at Ivy League grad wedding announcements, for example, to see whether there is parity in the partner’s own school background. Silly I know. Probably how I was brought up. [/quote]

I mean this nicely, but you need to get over this.  Lots of people goofed off or didn’t take life seriously, but then they picked themselves up — like you — and did something good.  You have no idea how someone got into a “top” school — sure, they could have been smart, but they also could have gotten in because they were legacies, or they had parents who made them work hard (not of their own volition) and then they bombed their first year of college.  You just have no idea.  The bottom line is, you are in the same place as they are, so you are equals — despite your background.

I worked with a Harvard grad who basically treated everybody else as beneath him.  Guess what, co-worker, we are in the exact same place at the exact same level, so that Harvard degree is about as good as my state school degree right now.  Lol.[/quote]

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