Uploaded January 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In which Maia spends her 26th birthday reflecting on what she has learned about the post-grad life; specifically, on how you can't really know what you want to do in life until you've left university, and how the real world and the internet can sometimes be better teachers than traditional, structured education.

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Music by Kevin MacLeod of incompetech.com

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Tags: wearestelmosfire, post-grad, university, internet, education, job, career, reflection, birthday, hank green