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I’m currently doing an accelerated stem masters program and I have 9 hours of labs per week and my roommate keeps bragging about how much free time she has because her (comms) grad program is so easy (her words)
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Anonymous 1w

Like this is a weekly occurrence and it’s always on the day of the week that I have 5 consecutive lab hours. I know I chose my own path and I did this to myself, and I do genuinely love what I study, but sometimes I just want to come home and go to bed without having to listen to her tell me how easy her day was

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Are you sure it’s bragging and not self deprecating? Sometimes I say shit about how I’m doing less/worse than other people out of admiration for how much they do

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

as someone with a hard major whose roommates have easy majors I get what you mean, but that is not at all how it comes across (esp at the end of a hard day)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

She literally keeps talking about how she likes that she already has a bachelor’s and that she’s halfway through her masters program because she gets to “brag about having her degree already” and that makes her “feel really smart and accomplished” when the only reason I’m graduating a semester early and not a full year is because of the sequential nature of my science courses

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Meanwhile, the only undergrad courses I had left to finish this semester were my capstone and the last class of my minor. Everything else I’m taking is for my grad program that I officially start next semester. Like I’m only getting my degree one semester later than she is and it’s exclusively because of the order I needed to take some of my classes in

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