Graduate Student: Burglary
But this was out in the middle of nowhere, so we were unlikely to be caught compared to kids our age doing similar things in the city.
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But this was out in the middle of nowhere, so we were unlikely to be caught compared to kids our age doing similar things in the city.
READ MOREEvery job I’ve held since graduation has been licensed, and I’ve never had to worry about my past. That’s not true for so many others: I hear it time and again at different jobs, “We were gonna hire him, but he didn’t pass a background check.”
READ MOREI guess I was convincing enough.
READ MOREIt was all kind of your standard “this happens in college” type stuff.
READ MORE…if anything, it was a fun story to tell people: Hey, I was almost arrested at an Ivy League. Ha!
It’s not so funny anymore.
READ MOREWhat’s your story?
READ MOREI have no idea if I’d be here today if I had been caught; I might not have bothered to try.
READ MOREHer mom bought the wine—so I think that makes us accomplices.
READ MOREIn my town, police looked the other way a lot. I don’t know if anything would have come of it even if we had been caught.
READ MOREIt wasn’t enough to make me stop stop…
READ MOREWe’ll it’s kind of crazy: I’ve never told anybody about this.
READ MORENow I’m just waiting for the next client to remind me of more crimes I forgot.
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