“I miss walking out of an event, party or lecture with friends, utterly speechless, giggling and grinning like a fool because of the brilliance we got to witness. … Columbia has always felt like a dream. I had seven and a half unbelievable semesters, and woke up a little too early.

“There’s so much right with the world, and so much wrong with it. If we can use our educations to tilt the scales toward the first, we should be able to take an afternoon off every once in a while.”