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 James Carlson
Currently attending Columbia Law School in New York City where he is quickly learning that the first year of law school is plenty of work while battling conflicting desires to explore one of the great cities of the world and pass his classes. He is also enjoying all of the sporting events, concerts, and the like that his student budget can afford.
 Remy Olson
(Read an interview with Remy.)
On the High Sierra trail, a famous one that is 6 days west to east starting in sequoia nat'l park and meeting up with the John Muir trail and Pacific Crest Trail 20 mi or so north of Mt. Whitney. I only had time to do the first leg of the trail, but it was ever so spectacular. I'm planning a biggie for the spring. If anyone plans on being in CA in April, holla back!
Probably half of my friends have joined TFA, headed for 3rd world countries w/NGO's, or are in grad school, which makes it personally hard for me to answer the question, 'how's work?' since I haven't ever seem to shake the conviction that some work is 'better' than other work. Sure... Accenture does 'global citizenship' work, but eligibility begins at the next level up (another year for me at least).
Work really does fall in the background (to be precise, I left it 135 mi SW of where this photo was taken) though it takes up a lot (too much) time each week. I've thought of all kinds of analogies of my work experience so far and what will probably be only another year or so. For plenty of reasons I always arrive back at the movie Human Nature to describe my feelings about purpose in life and where career fits in. You'd have to see the movie, really, but the gist of my sentiment is that so far my academic and professional career has been a means to an end where I end up becoming entangled in the means while having and losing sight of and having sight of again the 'end'. Consulting is by no means an end, but sticking to the plan and reminding myself of why this will be good career development in seeking an end (bettering the world), is ever more challenging when you don't get much intellectual stimulation and when real world things get you down (like money, lay people, traffic). It also kinda stinks not being able to talk about my actual client and the work related to the work that I do which is way more interesting than the chimp work I often have to do.
This explains why I was willing to drop $70 for a bear canister (necessary when camping in CA), but gag at the thought of spending that much on replacing my only brown pair of heels I broke which I wear to work (I just stopped wearing brown colors as a solution).
I do, however, feel more and more empowered with this new business tool-kit developing which also means my plans for the next step are evolving. Grad school MPA/MBA seems to be a fixture, but it's a challenge to line it up with what I want to come after that. I feel ever more capable of taking on a variety of paths after this step, and I weigh each day in a balance of optimizing world-saving instincts and personal satisfaction, and usually come out ambivalent about which path is best.
 Rachel Pope
Rachel is currently in Pittsburgh, PA preparing for her research project in Tanzania on obstetric fistula ( www.womensdignity.org). She plans to begin medical school upon her return.
 Kelly Underman
I have been accepted to department of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I will be working toward a Ph.D., specializing in sex and gender. Currently, I work in reproductive and sexual healthcare, and part time acting as a standardized patient.
 Mark Grabowski
Mark is creator of CubReporters.org, an online career guide for young journalists. He is also a third-year law student at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he focuses on media law and the First Amendment. Prior to law school, he spent five years reporting on news and politics for newspapers around the country.
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