<human>: Self-explanatory, but some background if you're interested. I'm going back to school in 2 weeks for a career change. I don't have a lot of experience due to depression and because I was in love with my former best-friend for an embarrassingly long amount of time. I ended that friendship last August, then stopped everything to work on myself.

As a result, I haven't been on a date since April 2015 (sad, I know). Since my last date I've lost 10lbs, updated my wardrobe, and am overall more confident. Still in counseling and still lonely, but I've made a lot of progress. I think I'm ready to consider dating again. I'm trying to be cautiously optimistic about meeting people, but I'm afraid I'll be the only single woman in my group or that grad school will be the social hell everyone says it is. I feel 20 steps behind most people my age. My life isn't completely together at the moment either (finances) and I'm scared that will ultimately keep me from getting back in the game.

Can you condense the text into three sentences or less?
<bot>: Haven't dated for a long time, working on my issues and progressing, how to get back in the dating game as a flawed 28-year-old graduate student?