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[quote=Anonymous]NP here. Two reactions to prior comments on this thread. I went to Ivy undergrad and a super-prestigious Ivy law school, and now work part-time as a lawyer. With respect to the PP who said she has some guilt about feeling like she is not living up to their potential as a SAHM, I just wanted to commiserate and say that I have the exact same feeling as a PT lawyer. I don't the time/energy/interest to be 100 percent dedicated to my job, so I live in a pretty demoralized place because I still feel like I'm not living up to potential.

For the poster who asked about why it might matter if someone was an Ivy league grad, I obviously don't know what it was like elsewhere, but at my law school there was a constant and tremendous focus on the fact that everyone who graduated could and would be expected to try to change the world, influence law, policy, social justice, history . . . we knew that some of our classmates could be tremendously influential people: presidents, judges, senators, professors, etc, and that created pressure on students generally to be ambitious to achieve professionally in a big way. (That kind of ambition was what got us into that institution in the first place!) We were painfully aware that we'd have opportunities based solely on the fact that we attended this place, and doors owuld be opened based on a name-brand - and thus we wield this power and advantage thoughtfully. As an ardent feminist/former women's studies major, I expected I'd change the world in a major way too! Turns out I can't do that as I struggle to get through the days working PT and feeling like I'm not doing enough at work or at home. And when I get the alumni reports about what people are doing now, it causes some soul-searching about whether I've wasted my potential. I imagine that similar pressure exists elsewhere, at other schools, but it is a near-universal complaint among my school friends who are also struggling with work/life balance.

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