tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32292276.post5313293884450851296..comments2023-05-21T01:53:32.046-07:00Comments on Marginal Perspectives: Fragmentsms. marginaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03854609171313401651noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32292276.post-57297052572888055192010-12-20T08:14:57.933-08:002010-12-20T08:14:57.933-08:00"Graduate school is murderously feudal....If ..."Graduate school is murderously feudal....If you are unlucky in your choice of adviser, you are pretty much screwed."<br /><br />Amen, my pointy-headed sister. Had I known how hard this was going to be, I don't think I would have ventured down this path! At least not with small children tagging along beside me. <br /><br />Love this post - I am going to pass it along to my dear friend I have made during our four 1/2 years of PhD work. I think she will appreciate it too.<br /><br />Melynda (from over at Letters to Ms. Feverfew)sostinkinhappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232348686080229324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32292276.post-32876251542922664862010-12-13T21:42:01.860-08:002010-12-13T21:42:01.860-08:00Hi, I just started following. Love your writing. I...Hi, I just started following. Love your writing. I've enjoyed reading your blog and look forward to following you.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08073625813017871573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32292276.post-11882033221010985382010-12-12T20:45:45.333-08:002010-12-12T20:45:45.333-08:00It's hard to tell where we get certain traits ...It's hard to tell where we get certain traits of character/personality/etc. And perhaps you're right. Maybe it really doesn't matter after all. Each of us is unique anyway - an assemblage of thousands of years of genetic shuffling and recombining, seasoned with environmental variations. I really liked your last few lines - very poetic.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03094017054916752470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32292276.post-53974266989884162062010-12-12T19:37:15.931-08:002010-12-12T19:37:15.931-08:00You ARE worthy of love, and I love you :-)
Like y...You ARE worthy of love, and I love you :-)<br /><br />Like you so eloquently mentioned, don't forget that wonderful, often overlooked in the nature vs. nuture debate, variable: you! You can inspect the pieces of yourself and think of where they might have come from...nparents, aparents....but who you are is even more than what those pieces combined make.<br /><br />And I am glad to know that some day when I embark to get my Master's and/or PH.D, I will have an empathetic should to cry on :-)The Declassified Adopteehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16726376584015902627noreply@blogger.com