If you're doing what you do because you love it, you have room to be happy for others. And that's a lot of fun, when you get down to it.

There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.

You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.

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