Graduate school has reduced me to
such a level that I cannot even quit the thing correctly. To be fair, I was never any good at making decisions unless 1) I could flip a coin or 2) there were definitely no take-backs; i.e., the result was either unimportant or immediate. Leaving the program in two quarters' time, of course, is neither of those.
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But noooooo.
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Plus, awesome practice if I decide to pursue a career in sponging or hippieness. Which I feel could totally happen, at this rate.
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Not all the benefits, really: they won't pay me (and my mom's insurance won't cover me) while I'm out of school. But of course you are completely right that, should I so desire, I can disappear the whole year, as if it had never been. I am my own Ministry of Information!
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While I didn't exactly take a "leave of absence" my final semester in undergrad, I did do a program that got me basically out of the classroom and into the field that I wanted to be in. That way when I started law school this year, facing another 4 years of classes, I had some idea of what I was heading towards. And it was a refreshing break from the tedium of papers!
So: find some cool job that really appeals to you (and don't limit yourself to Chicago--either abroad or here in DC would be great, too!) and go for it for a year. Then you can make a better decision, especially after talking to people working with you to see what sort of education they have or have found to be common/useful.
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As for batshit insanity, a book I read for this week's History of Science meeting spends quite a lot of time looking at the thought processes behind various conceptions of what science should be. In contrasting the experimentalist and non-experimentalist viewpoints, though, the authors fail to mention that the former were constantly handling mercury with bare hands. Perhaps they were rational when they started. But one wonders.
The other book is surprisingly expensive, but I suppose that explains the liberal obsession with libraries. I have UC's copy.
And don't call me a blogger. Bloggers whine to strangers. I prey upon my friends and relations. This sentence belongs in the first
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Both of those books are surprisingly expensive; one and a half years out of college, I'd forgotten how pricey even lib arts text books are. My books are still more expensive link it.
Blogger! Blogger! Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-blogger!
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You're the blogger. Friends don't let friends project.
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