Don’t Be Hard to Get Along With

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I am an adjunct English instructor whose full-time employer offers an academic-assistance program. You know how those programs work. Employees pay for college courses and then get reimbursed for the tuition. Some people obtain entire degrees that way. I’m one of them.

I had worked on a master’s degree for two years when, just before graduation, I made a joyless discovery: I had forgotten to apply for tuition…