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    A Letter To Myself Before Starting University

    I’ve only just finished graduate school, and boy, does it ever feel weird to see other students start their school year while I’ve finished mine. I feel like my own opinions about university have evolved over this past year in graduate studies, and I wish I knew the things that I know now (because no one’s heard that one before). In my undergrad I started with a major in Neuroscience and then switched to Linguistics, which was good for me, but it also challenged my own perceptions of what I thought university would be, how long it would be (I needed to extend my four-year degree into five), and my…