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With the impending graduation, I’m finally realizing that there is a real world out there that exists and lives and breathes and pollutes and cries and belches. That, on any given day, millions of people work billions of hours, usually in places they don’t like or, at the very least, would avoid if given the [...]

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Faced with impending graduation with a degree in the liberal arts, I have crumpled several times over the past few weeks under the weight of the realization that, upon receiving my BA, I will have absolutely no direction. Engineering majors have it easy: you graduate, evaluate the relative benefits of more education, and eventually settle [...]

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(This entry could also be entitled “Why I’m Glad I’m a Philosophy Major”.)
After one more semester, my present academic stint will come to a close and I will be awarded with the ever-common BA in the (not-so-common) field of philosophy, which I have no doubt will provide little or no assistance in landing me a [...]

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