I am so happy not to be in graduate school anymore. I think I have fully recovered. I was even afraid to read--I met a man who had a PhD and said that after he got it he could no longer read books. He hadn't read a book in 30 yeras.  It's like force-feeding--and force-listening.  No matter how much I agree with something a professor is saying, I have an extremely difficult time absorbing it the way I am supposed to. I am too busy thinking critically--adding things to what  he's saying, correcting it, etc etc.  St John's truly is the best damn college. Truly. I am unfit for any other.  I can't imagine the agony of going through more than one semester of that.

The other part is, liberal arts. Most people specialize  and don't know enough about any other subject to be truly well educated. If you are going to teach Aristotle and Plato,how can you do it without having read at least Euclid?  Not to mention the Iliad.

In fact I feel invigorated not to be in a classroom.  Shameless, I am.