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by Anonymous - November 02, 2004

Being a student is not the most important goal in life. How can you offer more to our world than just sheer existance?

I have always been enamored of the ideal of public service, which is to say, I have always envisioned myself becoming a perfectly disinterested public servant whose only impetus is to serve his country. Although I am constantly reminded that practically no modern public servant or politician is cast in such a Lockean mold, I am also aware there are…

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