Originally Posted by frosty

Haha! Jordan, no, there is no connection between the two! I've been thinking about a doctoral program long before I started this job. Some people at work know this. And no, I've not dipped anything yet! I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that 'tis better for me to admire from afar than to lose my sense of good reasoning and do something rash. I know in the context of work, it's wrong and unprofessional, yet I also understand that what I feel is very human and therefore normal, even if such feelings are a bit immature, superficial, or transient. My feelings have not completely gone away, but I'm trying to be mature in dealing with them, and also being realistic.

Maybe for a poor boy like me, I really shouldn't have such fanciful dreams of getting an impractical degree or saying such things as that I don't care about making money. *sigh* Sometimes we like to think we are above that, but alas, in such a society as we live in, it is hard to rise above the baseness of human character and so easy to fall below our own ideals.