We came up here for my grad school, and I really regret it. I finished all of my course work, and then I had all kinds of issues, including the cancer, happen, and I never took my comprehensive exams. Now, it's been so long since I started, that I would have to start everything over again, and we just don't have the funds for that. So I feel like I moved farther away from my family for no good reason. And the worst part is that Dave really loves it here, and he does not want to move. So now, I feel stuck. The worst part is that I could have gone to grad school in Cleveland, which is where I wanted to end up anyway, but the MSU program was more highly rated, which is why I chose it. If I had gone with my gut instead of worrying about prestige, I wouldn't be stuck here in freakin' Michigan. Blech.

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