Moving On: Reflections on Letting Go of the Past (a Personal Rant)

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The discussion emphasizes resilience in the face of life's challenges, highlighting that setbacks, such as academic struggles, are common and not the end of one's journey. Participants encourage focusing on positive influences and exploring personal motivations for pursuing a career in physics. Questions arise about the genuine passion for the subject versus the stress it may cause, suggesting that enjoyment often correlates with success. The conversation acknowledges the possibility of failure but reassures that persistence and engagement in studies can lead to improvement. The thread was locked due to the deletion of the original post, but responses remain available for the original poster's benefit.
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Your life is far from over. People run into unexpected twists and turns all through their life, be lucky you still have your health.

Find positive things to surround yourself with and better ideas will come on what you should do with your life.

I have no advice on if you can still get into grad school or not, but you never said why it just clicked you wanted to be a professor in physics.

If you can't do physics, then why do you crave it? In your mind what makes you want it so bad?

If doing physics stresses you out and you just do "okay" in these subjects do you really still enjoy it?

Usually but not always, if you enjoy something you find you do excel in it. If i dislike a subject its usually only because I don't do well in it. But that's just me.
 
maybe they have a physics grad school in grenada.
 
I assume this was a rant about failing a class?

If so, I've been there. Life goes on. You won't fail forever. Although, you could fail for a really, really long time.
 
yes, i did. but once you start going to class and doing the reading, it should change.
 
Since the opening post was deleted, I've locked this thread. I didn't delete it in case the OP didn't see all the responses yet and could still benefit in some way from them.
 
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