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Keeping up with the Joneses (Jun 24, '98)

It turns out that one of my undergraduate classmates is now a father. My first reaction, after hearing that, was to wonder out alound, "What was his hurry?"

For some reason, I feel that I have to keep up with the people with whom I graduated. What are most of them doing? Some of them are finishing their Ph.Ds and joining their first jobs. Others are having children. A sizeable number is getting paged out of their beds by demanding jobs.

Wonder if everybody is happy. People laugh when I ask them that question.


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