期刊名称：The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research
印刷版ISSN：1925-2420
出版年度：2016
卷号：5
页码：215-222
出版社：Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies
摘要：I used to be a columnist for the Lawyers Weekly when I was in private practice as a lawyer. In 2009, when I decided to go back to school for my LL.D., which turned into my pursuit of a Ph.D., first in law, and then in legal studies, I published a column in which I analogized graduate studies to a "fabulous manicure for the mind.” In retrospect, I cringe at this. Was my analogy driven by idiocy or bravado? It was a bit of both, I think. I was trying to be amusingly glib for the audience, I was underestimating what would be involved in my graduate work, and I was trying to act more confident than I felt about starting a program of graduate studies with four children under the age of five, one of whom was six months old.
