Some days I miss school so much that I start thinking seriously about grad school again, but when that happens there’s nothing like this to yank me back down to earth. (Except maybe grad students themselves, who tell me that if there’s anything else I could possibly enjoy doing, I should do that instead.) I like school, and I would really like to go back. But I also really like being able to pay my rent, so there’s that.

Ideally, I would have thought of this before someone else did, and I’d have two hundred grand just begging to be spent on higher education, but that’s sadly not the case.