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by petronic 2625 days ago
The academic job market was very different in 2006 than even a couple of years later. With the downturn came a flood of people staying on for grad school instead of looking for jobs - and with them came a flood of free labor for the universities.

She probably assumed with her Columbia degree she'd have no trouble landing something quickly, even with her artificial constraints.