Finally.

I'm 23 years old and progressing in my final semester of college, yet I feel as though I've just arrived. I am finally living the actual life of a collegiate student.

This week I have:

• Read great and varied books like "Siddhartha" and "The Feminine Mystique."
• Learned to play chess, and subsequently lost my first three or four games.
• Attended a lecture by a liberal-socialist German professor of history on "daring to think."
• Asked myself whether God exists, and why I believe s/he does or does not.
• Subsisted almost entirely on coffee, energy bars, and vitamin water.

I feel that I'm finally tasting the life of the mind. Whether or not I am privileged to always live a thinker's life, I will be glad to have had experienced it.