  Agnieszka, It took me some time to find you. How's Princeton treating you? This is Jeff Cho from the class of 2001 (but graduated in winter 02). It's been two years so I'll refresh your memory. In the fall and winter of 02, I worked with you at the Humanities Center. I started out doing research on animal sympathy/empathy and its relationship to ethics, but instead spent the bulk of my efforts developing the topic of my honor's thesis on folk psychology, in which I compared and contrasted simulation theory and theory theory.
I've always felt a little bit guilty about that. Okay, I'll cut straight to the point: I am considering studying philosophy at the graduate level. After graduation I asked for your recommendation for law school, and that was the direction that I tentatively picked. I scored well on the LSAT and workd at a DC law firm as a paralegal; but a year later found that I probably will never be a great attorney, at least not one who's terribly interested at what he's doing. Meanwhile I've been working part-time and reading through old papers and popular (=not academic) philosophy books and talking with my grad school friends. So here I am.
I will be teaching English in Japan, for a full year starting this July (as you knew, this was something I had considered after graduation, but chose paralegal instead). I hope to start a graduate program in September 2005. Too late? I have most of the application requirements in place: recommendations from you and Krista Lawlor on file at the CDC, the thesis as my writing sample, 3.41 GPA (phil grades were slightly higher), 1450 GRE (writing unknown). As to the rest, I was hoping you can clue me in. Which programs will I qualify for?
How should I choose between them? Being out of school for two years, I'm not sure if I can choose a possible field or faculty with any degree of confidence. Would a terminal master's program make more sense? Are there questions that I haven't thought of? So far, I've done my research exclusively from philosophicalgourmet.com. (I've considered the economical aspect of a career in philosophy, and it's a risk I'm willing to take, for now) Let me know.
Thanks, cho (a similar, well, nearly identical, email was sent to Krista Lawlor as well) 
