One of my friends is becoming a very interesting foil to myself. We’re of roughly equal intelligence, started out in the same high school studying the same things, but our paths diverged at college.

It’s very interesting seeing how our differing qualities of education are impacting our trajectories. Of course, education is just a tool, to serve rather than limit its wielder, but I didn’t realize this until last month. His success may come with academia (and I wish him all the best), but mine will certainly come in spite of it. That’s probably why I’m riding on my own ideas now more than ever, though I must say it is a heady feeling to enact change on the power of your own vision.

And yet even after I finish my Ph. D., I’m going to need to go back if I want to study music. Or biology. Or mathematics. Or sociology. Or philosophy. It’s quite a dilemma.