11.26.07 | This time last year, I found myself sitting at my desk in a Miesian high-rise – caught between meetings with reps, meetings with clients, a world of conscious decisions to make, and 60 seconds to make each one (trying to remain inspired all the while). This was the glamorous life of a commercial interior designer. Was I really ready to give all of this up to go back to school? The answer had always been an underlying “yes.” Now that I am back in academics, that “yes” is taking on new dimensions. In this pioneering article of Crosscurrents, I will share my journey into academics: the story about how I packed my pragmatics, retrieved my idealism from off-site storage, and moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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