How to get over the stigma and disappointment of going to a state school?

My DH’s colleague’s daughter went to Temple Honors program. Loved it and is doing her grad study at an Ivy. It’s not exactly in Timbuktu, you know. Philly is a big east coast city. You are at a great school.

Can’t help how you feel. That’s the rush of emotion. Work hard, find things to do, look for the pluses there. You are at a major national research university in a major city. You’ll find plenty of opportunities and hopefully they’ll take up enough of your gray cells so that the feelings you are suffering will get pushed back and fade. There’s no stigma about TEmple.