Throughout my career I’ve met students who claim they don’t need to learn whatever I’m offering because they know exactly what they’ll be doing in a few years – they have it all figured out. I tell them that if someone had told me when I was a teenager that by the time I was thirty-six I’d be married with three children and living in rural Tennessee, I’d have laughed my head off. At eighteen, I was mildly interested in getting married at some later date, but I knew for a fact that I’d never have kids and I’d never move away from California. Surprise, surprise, surprise.

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