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Making the Decision Might Be the Toughest Part

Nov 09, 2007

At Brian Switek's Laelaps blog, he writes a heartfelt post, chronicling what he calls his "tortuous academic path to date." For some vicarious living, and maybe to feel better about the fact that you've actually made it into graduate school without that much existential angst, check out his post here.

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