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general accent rule (college)
Part of the point of an out-of-state college experience is to make you really self-conscious about your own accent, whatever it may be. Of course if you, like me, have no accent, then there is no problem. But if, for example, you are a person from Rhode Island, Texas or the deep south going to school in upstate NY, or a person from Wisconsin/Minnesota going to school in Boston, or a person from Boston going to school in southern California (etc.), people will mock you. Fact of life. Even if their own accents totally suck wind (how can Boston people mock anyone?). It is through these trials and tribulations that everyone ends up sounding generically the same (like me) by the time they hit the professional world.
You're welcome for this lesson of life.
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