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  • In the meantime, I still won't consider myself post-academic.

    Amanda Krauss: My Post-Academic Year Amanda Krauss 2012

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • In the meantime, I still won't consider myself post-academic.

    Amanda Krauss: My Post-Academic Year Amanda Krauss 2012

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Nifong Before Lacrosse 2007

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