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tania:
i started university with the intention of getting my undergrad degree and being done with it, and only this year have put some serious thought into my future and decided i pretty much want to to do nothing else except go to grad school and study criminology and get a master's degree, but since that wasn't my original plan a lot of my grades are pretty shitty and now i'm kind of worried that they will be too terrible for me to actually get in anywhere and i don't have any kind of alternative plan to not going to school that i'm happy with at all.
i know i'm young, and i guess i should probably talk to a program or career counselor or wait and see what happens before i start reevaluating everything, but shit.

Slick:
Coming from my tiny town and doing not a whole lot of research, I didn't really know grad studies were a thing until I actually got here. I am in somewhat of a similar boat, I do not want to go into industry, and I'd rather go to grad school and study interesting things. My marks aren't great though, really not great. I figure the way to do it if I'm still able to do it is just talk to profs and get in that way.
A good friend of mine with a name oddly similar to yours did her undergrad with just OK marks but got into grad school because the prof liked her and thought she could be a good grad student, so if you want to do grad stuff where you're doing your undergrad, you've got to network.

I've really no idea what I'll be doing in a year.

BrittanyMarie:
They're likely to overlook shitty grades if they were when you were younger. If you've been getting progressively better grades, that's something they're more likely to look at like "hey, this person grew stronger academically". My best friend is finishing up grad school (currently writing a thesis about Dostoevsky and religion), and he barely got back into college as an undergrad because he went for three years and then failed out.

Jimmy the Squid:
I did a BA with a Psych major but my marks weren't great and as a result I wasn't able to get into the post-grad course I wanted (basically grad school). I ended up taking another course this year, part-time. I now have the equivalent of two B.Psych degrees and hopefully I have raised my marks enough to get into grad school for next year. If I haven't then I really don't know what the hell I would do as I've never really considered that I wouldn't get to become a practising Psychologist. If I don't get accepted for next year I guess it is time to start thinking about it? Maybe I could just pool all my efforts into being in the raddest Black Metal band in Australia. Really our only competition is Astriaal. Fuck.

Metope:
(Ok, resurrecting the wisdom teeth theme from a long time ago because it is valid again.)

Tooth thread,

I just got home from the dentist where I had my upper two wisdom teeth pulled out. My dentist is a sweetheart, and she kept telling me things to calm me down even though I don't think I acted nervous or anything (she could probably see the fear in my eyes), and it was all over in roughly 15 minutes. It didn't hurt at all, and the actual tooth pulling was nowhere near as horrible as I had imagined it, but the things surrounding the actual pulling were, and still are, really awful. The worst thing is without doubt the sedation. I am completely numb in my palate, and every time I swallow it feels like I'm swallowing my tongue, which triggers the gag reflects and makes me cough up lots of blood and saliva. And oh god, the blood. It just wont stop coming! I left a bloody trail in the snow between the dentist's office and all the way home. The taste is in my mouth constantly, and it's making me nauseous. 

In two weeks I'm having my lower two teeth pulled out, which will be far worse because, as some of you might remember, they are going out the surgical way, and I don't get to be unconscious. Bloody hell, what a mess. (Expect me to resurrect the tooth theme when I'm done with that too, because I'm not wasting an opportunity to whine.)

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