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"I'm going to get a hundred college majors at the same time," I lied. "Like, really enjoy the college experience. I think I might join a half dozen sororities, and a couple of fraternities, and maybe some of me will decide to skip college altogether and become a barista and try to get a job in Hollywood as an actress. I could go to Nashville and try to become a country and western star at the same time that I'm going to Julliard."

He stared at me.

"This power of mine doesn't mean that I'm less than human. It means that even if the world gets peaceful again, I just won't have to make any choices about my life path."

He was silent for a moment.

"Do you know how much tuition you'd be paying?"

"Like twenty five million a year?" I said. "The real expense would be getting an office wall big enough for all my diplomas. In four years I could gain four hundred, or four thousand years of education. The era of the Renaissance man is over because there's too much knowledge now for one person to be a master of them all. Maybe I could be the last Renaissance woman."

It'd be two hundred fifty million a year if I got a thousand degrees at the same time, but I wasn't sure I'd be able to make enough money tinkering for that.

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