I’m standing inside a large room with artificial lighting, connected to open hallways with no view of the outside. It resembles the underground tunnels that riddle the University of Minnesota campus, or certain corridors from the hospital where my father worked. I am talking with the professor who gave me the C+ I earned, after she set us up to fail and another anonymous figure. The Berkeley professor I have an academic crush on shows up. We are discussing my future. I express uncertainty as to what I want to do. My academic crush chastises me, saying that was why he didn’t let me in. Rage boils over inside me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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