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Reflections on becoming

Will this be on the exam? – an intro

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Life After School is a bi-monthly podcast created by Jessa. You can find more about Jessa by reading her daily blog at jessa.blog.

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If you have spent your life in school like this:

Years
Kindergarten2
Grade school6
High school4
Undergrad5
Graduate studies2

This is the number of years I spent in school.

…you have spent almost one-third of your life in school, assuming a 75-year life-span.

Podcast highlights

  • I was taught that if I will just ace the exams and get high grades, I will be successful enough to land a job, secure tenure, and live a stress-free retirement. Schools taught me how to find a job, but times are changing, and the workplace evolving.”
  • “Like they always say, the map is not the territory. But I was too focused on familiarizing the map only to be unequipped to navigate the realities of adulthood. I thought that hoarding information will help me find my way through living life. But no one can outwit the internet. I realized that what matters is what you do with all the things you have learned. Because it’s not about collecting dots. It’s more about connecting the dots.

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