ABSTRACT
Deciding what to do after college graduation was the third really hard decision in my young life. I majored in history at Swarthmore. Like many of my classmates, I often thought I would become a professor. But, while I envisioned myself as a good teacher, I had so many brilliant classmates that I feared, in comparison, I could be no more than an O.K. historian. I thought I could get some satisfaction from doing archival research but perhaps not enough to make it as big a part of my life as it would have to be in that profession.
