becomingseriousandgoingtograduateschool

I never set out to go to graduate school. The lesson I had learned working in the doll factory was I didn't want to end up in a minimum wage job. Going to school seemed like a good way to ensure truly gainful employment. Along the way, I stumbled onto linguistics. If you enjoy trying to solve impossible puzzles, then you too may have gotten hooked, if you had been in my shoes. I had to go to graduate school because that's where one goes to throw oneself into such mazes. On the way out, they handed me a degree. A childhood friend of my brother's remarked, "who would have ever thought you'd get a PhD from MIT"... that's what some people say to you when they know you were incubated in a doll factory.

My good friend, Bonnie, typed my dissertation. I knitted her a sweater: