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Academic flirtations

January 3, 2013

About once a year I get this nagging feeling that I should apply for a PhD program.

I ultimately do nothing more than re-read New Kid on the Hallway’s teaching horror stories, and then creep around the Little Professor’s blog for a while.

Getting a doctorate definitely isn’t about money because associate professors at the local public university make roughly what I make now. Tenure also seems like a dying thing, and really, a MBA is the way to go if I was solely interested in money.

Pursuing a PhD would be about the intellectual challenge and being back in a university setting.

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Resolve

May 8, 2011

Memba the snow mess from what, two weeks ago? Well we got over that. The weather is gorgeous, but I am inside of a café writing this paper.

Finishing the paper for my Weimar Cinema class is difficult because I already have a fabulous full-time job and elective credits don’t affect my law school GPA – so this class is essentially pass/fail and I can do a mediocre job and still graduate.

The problem is that I don’t want to end my law school career poorly or turn in anything offensively bad. Nothing is worse than reading a paper that someone obviously didn’t put any effort into.

So here I sit. At least I only have a few hours left.

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On hold

May 4, 2011

Yesterday morning I woke up around 6 a.m. and felt like the plague hit. So I emailed my boss and rolled back into bed. I finally dragged myself to my finals situation room (aka Starbucks) by 11 a.m. and worked on my Weimar Cinema essay until my 5:30 p.m. class.

The paper is supposed to be 15 page. I got 11 done, so good progress I suppose.

And then I had my last formal class of law school…

…which really isn’t a law school class.

But I am not done. The tax clinic expects me to work until next Friday, which is frustrating because my facebook stream is full of all of my friends declaring that finals are done and summer is here. And yet here I sit on hold for another week.

Law school feels like Avatar: creepy blue people and an ending that just won’t come soon enough.

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The job offer

January 24, 2011

My landlord probably posted a new ad on Craigslist because this morning my phone gets bombarded with calls from hoodtastic prospective tenants.

Some of the callers hang up on me when I tell them the building income requirement. Others hang up upon learning that their felony record and two month old unlawful detainer is a problem.

I am in Dinkytown when my phone rings for the 5th time. I am en route to buy a $30 xeroxed reading packet for my Weimar Cinema class. It’s my elective, and my only other class besides the tax clinic.