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In the meantime, I still won't consider myself post-academic.
Amanda Krauss: My Post-Academic Year Amanda Krauss 2012
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If being "post-academic" means doing things not printed on your transcript, we're all post-academics.
Amanda Krauss: My Post-Academic Year Amanda Krauss 2012
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I'm no longer one and technically that means I'm supposed to call myself a "post-academic," the preferred term for those who possess advanced degrees but are not doing "academic" things.
Amanda Krauss: My Post-Academic Year Amanda Krauss 2012
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If being "post-academic" means doing things not printed on your transcript, we're all post-academics.
Amanda Krauss: My Post-Academic Year Amanda Krauss 2012
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In the meantime, I still won't consider myself post-academic.
Amanda Krauss: My Post-Academic Year Amanda Krauss 2012
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People with law degrees never refer to themselves as "post-academic," even when they use their advanced degrees to go into fields like television writing and standup comedy.
Amanda Krauss: My Post-Academic Year Amanda Krauss 2012
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People with law degrees never refer to themselves as "post-academic," even when they use their advanced degrees to go into fields like television writing and standup comedy.
Amanda Krauss: My Post-Academic Year Amanda Krauss 2012
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I'm no longer one and technically that means I'm supposed to call myself a "post-academic," the preferred term for those who possess advanced degrees but are not doing "academic" things.
Amanda Krauss: My Post-Academic Year Amanda Krauss 2012
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If you run with this assumption--reasonably clever guy, huge gaps in his education that were not filled in during his post-academic career--his frequent gaffes come more into focus.
Barack Obama at the University of Chicago Law School. Ann Althouse 2008
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Barring official academic records–and I doubt the liar Nifong will release them–we have only his extremely lackluster post-academic life upon which to judge how well he might have performed in school.
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