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    Programs How to continue after a major academic failure

    Obvious yet important -- but the answer I'm unsure of, as I don't know how to replicate or imagine how I'd do again under extremely high stress situations. I manage better now than I was back in school, but I'm also not subjected to 6+ classes with an 80 hour workload. (I wasn't physically...
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    Programs How to continue after a major academic failure

    [Big forewarning that this is a bit of a rant written by a sleep-deprived person at the edge of their wits, but I am genuinely asking for advice as well, if a bit desperately.] [tl;dr: I flunked out of one of the best undergrad physics programs in the US in my junior year due to health issues...
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    What can zombies teach us about the persistence of academic pursuits?

    Hello there, I'm new here. I wish I had something of greater interest to say, but seeing as I'm a zombie and it's late o'clock where I reside, it seems I must resort to tautology. Not long ago I was a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed physics undergrad, now I'm a sans-degree, part-time math...