Just recently, I blogged a little bit about “being wrong,” or specifically what I learned through being rejected from grad school. Twice. The first time I applied to Ph.D. programs in psychology was in 2000. Then again in 2002. It wasn’t until my third try in 2003 that I finally got an acceptance letter. Multiple acceptance letters, actually.
To be real, it’s very easy for me to sit where I’m sitting now and proclaim that I learned something beneficial each time I applied, that it made me more knowledge about the graduate admissions process. While all of that is definitely true, my experience in the “meantime” of not knowing whether I would get in if I tried again is a completely different story.
A reader asked me the following question in response to my piece on grad school rejection:
How did you overcome the ego blow of not getting in on the first try? How did you overcome of the fear of failure of trying it again?
And the answer is simple as this question… …
