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Ricardo Colón-Medina's avatar

Great stuff. I commiserate. As soon as I finish writing this comment and put down my phone, I’ll stand up and clap slowly; one minute for every year you’ve been out of that program. When I’m done, I’ll do a really cool heel-turn, face the direction of Tucson, and vigorously (yes, vigorously) salute. Also, I noticed you didn’t mention the handsome, muscular cohort-mate who traded his mattress for your Roku when he left the program. That’s fine. Totally fine. It was a great trade for me, so I understand why you wouldn’t want to publicize it.

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Ersin Akinci's avatar

Bro you were my sanity in those years. I will never forget stumbling down Green St. with our hands deep in a bag of salt and pepper kettle chips at 1:30 AM. I think we were seven Foucaults deep, maybe eight. Anyway, I hope that you're still enjoying my Roku as much as I'm still enjoying sleeping in your bed.

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Ricardo Colón-Medina's avatar

I’ll always cherish those memories. Can’t beat an early morning Green St. stumble.

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Ugur Akinci, Ph.D.'s avatar

Just remembered my own grad school days when as a TA I was paid $275 a month, $175 of which went to rent (and at the time I was married too). Ahh those days of unbounded hope, thick books to read every week, and abject poverty.

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