Now that it’s officially 2014, the year that I graduate from Duquesne, I’ve been musing a lot about where I’m going from here and what I want to achieve in the next 40+ years of my life.  For a long time, I just expected myself to go to grad school, as if there wasn’t any other route.  But the further I went in my studies, the more I realized that Academia, though warm and inviting and the only thing I’ve ever really known or been good at, is not really all that exciting.  I do not sneer at professors and other scholars; after all, they are responsible for the knowledge I have obtained in the last 17 or so years of my academic career.  However, as much as I admire those who have dedicated their lives to perpetuating information, I simply cannot count myself among them.

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