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Memoirs of an Academic Career

Although I was a Buddhist practitioner several years before I took my first tenure-track job at the age of 46, I distinctly remember a few times that I took refuge in retreat centers during some crisis in my academic life before. The first was when I had been told by the Graduate Program Director that unless I registered full time, I couldn't get a teaching assistant position (TA). He advised me to take out a loan. After the year of accrued student loans and still no TA, I was sitting in the graduate office. A young man walked in, hitched up his trousers, said he'd been told to turn in his CV because he got a TA, asked what a CV was, and turned his brimmed cap respectfully back the other ...

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