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Thanks, Callista, that cheers me up. Maybe I should just go back to school (I live in a college town).

School was easy for me academically but hard for me socially due to cliques, peer pressure, sensory overload, etc... is PhD school better than high school/undergrad?

I'm told it is. I've been talking to some grad students about their experiences, and they talk a lot about being trusted to learn on their own, and doing their own research and their own learning instead of being in a big class where the prof expects that everybody is going to slack off by default. Apparently, it's very unusual for a grad student to get anything worse than a "B" on a class, both because the expectations are that high for them, and because the kind of person who wants to go into grad school is the kind of person who cares about learning, and is in a subject that's in his area of interest.

I don't know about PhD programs, but my experience in graduate school is that there really isn't much of a social element. Most students are working and/or married (some w/children), so they don't really have time to hang out with classmates. We go to class, we leave, we study... Unlike undergrad, it's not really a great place to meet people. On the positive side, though, nobody will judge you for not being very social.