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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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in freshman year of high school i took a practice AP comp sci test, got a 19/40, and came totally unglued and couldn't stop myself from bawling my eyes out in the shower. it's one of the only times i ever cried growing up that i can remember. i never told anybody
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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just imagined someone telling me “it’s okay to make mistakes, it doesn’t mean you’re bad and it doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you” and started crying so uh
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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that's how i know that by freshman year of high school there wasn't a single person in my life i felt safe having a conversation with about failure. nobody i trusted to reassure me or comfort me or go over the test with me and help me learn so i could do better
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
it will not surprise you to hear that when i started struggling in grad school there wasn't anybody i felt safe having a conversation with about that either, least of all my advisor 🙃
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IsabellaElle
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I skipped the final exam of logic intro last semester (because of the fatigue during a dry fast) and got a d+ eventually, never told anyone (until major declaration) i concluded (only later realizing it was a confabulation ) that 隐忍 is a virtue
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Rizoma Field School
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This is so vulnerable ❤ I think about this wrt parenting a lot. You don't want to go so far in the other direction either wherein there is no striving at all for success. I've seen that play out poorly too. So you have to simultaneously have standards and uncond. love
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