100% agreed! I've started opting for kids meals because I can get a drink and food and maybe some icecream, all of which satisfy my hunger without making me feel like I'm about to explode.

It's an alternate pathway in my country. If you do well in honours and your marks are competitive enough for a PhD scholarship, you can skip masters and start a PhD straight away.

Thank you so much for the well wishes! My best wishes for you too!

I graduated high school at 18, did a 3 year bachelor, 1 year honours year (which is a year of research), and then got into my PhD 6 months after my Honours. It's been very busy but I'm finally content with my career trajectory.

This is exactly how my thinking changed after I graduated high school. I was the typical nerd, always studying and being very harsh on myself. I was afraid of what people thought of me all the time.

Since around 2 years ago, I just thought, fuck it, I'm done. Ofcourse if I'm in a serious situation I act accordingly, but otherwise, I'll continue being a weirdo.

True! BUT this was my first takeout from McDonald's in years simply because I could finally eat something vegetarian from them. Once I fly back home, I'll never have it again

In my background, we're always told to act our age. Being as out there as I've been out there in the recent years would definitely raise some eyebrows and label me "immature" by some people. Also because this was a first impression, I was afraid that I had made the wrong impression, hence the TIFU