Less talking, more reading

College is a wonderful place. A community of people engaged in the same pursuits provides a welcoming environment that fosters speculation, intellectual adventure and novel risks. Perhaps credit for this falls on a positive context for self esteem or just on the suspicion that everyone else is equally frightened and prone to “fake it until they make it,” but for many of us it’s a rare chance to truly take conceptual leaps. Some of us shouldn’t.