Word: agent
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...Special Agent. It sounds cool and sleek. It sounds like I own black sunglasses...
...have no experience in any field that would be of much use to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And yet, more recently than I would like to admit, I wanted to be an FBI agent. I knew it was a pipe dream. I'm an English concentrator, not a forensics expert. Nevertheless, I've found out that I'm not alone. It seems from two years of informal conversation with my fellow undergrads that lot of Harvard students want to join the top dogs of law enforcement. Even Harvard students who wouldn't dream of owning...
...application to be an intern isn't much less intense. Nevertheless, many of us have dreamed of heading to Quantico for 16 weeks of intense training in pursuit of the biggest bad-ass title of all: Special Agent...
...Sadly, despite my desire to be a bad-ass, I eventually came to realize that I am not destined for a career as an FBI agent. It took me a long time to give up this dream, to realize that my passion for literature and wimpiness were not going to bring me to the forefront of the law enforcement profession. For me, the FBI is unattainable. In high school parlance, it's the in-crowd and I'm the kid on the outside...
...Many months later, it turns out that the media, collectively, may have allowed itself to be as badly misled as Judge Parker was by the FBI agent who later admitted playing fast and loose with the truth. Unlike Judge Parker, we ought to know better...