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writes:I know questions on this site are usually relationship based, but I feel that I am in a big dilemma and really need advice from outsiders. I am 23, American and for the past 2 1/2 years I have been spending my time completing a documentary overseas. I am back in the US now and I am faced with completing my degree at my former university or go overseas to University of Glasgow.I have had many bad experiences with my former university. I found the courses to be uninspiring and have had bad experience with a few faculty members, which I fear might have caused some negative chitter-chatter. Don't be too alarmed, I am not guilty of anything sinister. I didn't give a certain professor the relationship he wanted and since he has had less than a favorable opinion of me that I know he has shared with others. Such as: I am not serious. I am a fake. That I may have flirted with a guest of the university once. (A floozy I guess you could say.) (I really don't know what he is inclined to make up). I have the option of going to a different campus (same university though) and majoring in a different field of study but I am worried that a negative rep. might follow me as well as not having the same artistic outlets that I might have in Glasgow. Glasgow offers an artistic community outside the university as well as a good program in languages and law (which is the course I want to go).In Glasgow, however, I would completely have to start my degree over (leave my junior status at my current university) and start as a first year college student. The trade off is that there are potentially more opportunities but it would cost at least $60,000 more and 4 years to complete my degree verses approx. $30,000 and 2 years at my current university.I am troubled by time and cost verses potential experience that might have a huge impact on my life. In addition, since I don't have the finances, my parents would have to take from their retirement to do put me through school...but they have both told me that they are unable to retire anyways in light of the current economy.I am at a crossroads. What would you do??? Would you forsake potential cultural experience and opportunities in different countries for the sake of time and cost?? Or would you just go for it? HELP
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reader, anonymous, writes (29 April 2009): This is a big decision for you, so really only you can make it.I would say to ask yourself: what do you really want to do? Which option makes you feel happy, full of hope and excitement? It might take a while to discover it, but I believe that the answer is within you, you just have to reach in and find it. I also believe that when it comes to following our dreams, we will find a way of overcoming any obstacles, including money.As for your worries that a bad reputation might follow you...just because someone may have said negative things about you, it doesn't mean that other people will believe him. People might not have took it seriously at all. I'm sure that most people won't judge you by what they have heard about you, but would rather get to know you and decide for themselves what they make of you.Either way, I don't think you should let someone's lies stand in the way of doing what you want. You know what is true, and that is what matters.I hope this helps somehow, and I hope things go well for you. x
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