should i be embarrassed about graduating late?

SlackerMomMD
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 06:43:03 +0000

The point is to graduate. That’s it.

When I took off a year between undergrad and graduate school, my friends were horrified and one actually said something like “But then you’ll be a year behind!” I had to laugh - behind what? What mythical timeline were these people following?

People take different paths through life. There is no line/group/cohort you have to follow - actually life is less stressful if you just drop this idea of being “late” versus “on time” versus “early”.