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Why Your Professional Self Keeps Using Your Student Furniture
Humor: Some of us still decorate our homes in Early Graduate Student.
These days, I find the lines are blurred between school and Real Life. A lot of people are returning to school while holding down grown-up jobs. Student life often means spending a cozy evening with your computer or heading to the boardroom for an on-site lesson.
Even traditional campus life has been redesigned for grown-ups. A long time ago, the New York Times Magazine carried a story about life in the New Dorms that look like yuppie condominiums, complete with carpeting and “adult-sized refrigerators.”
Meanwhile, a lot of grown-ups who are old enough to remember typing their term papers are still living like students.
Books, magazines, and loose stacks of paper are strewn everywhere. A Real Student secretly misses bricks and boards, although today they cost more than particle board shelves and are impossible to move.
When I lived in Alaska, I realized there was no point in buying Real Furniture. You could equip a ten-room house for the cost of shipping the contents of a studio apartment to the Lower…
