Riches and wonders
Today I saw a group of kids who were visiting from Alaska (Allison turned around and asked them where they were from) eating in our dining hall. They did not realize that you're supposed to take your dishes and leftover food up to the conveyor belt before you leave, and so I saw that one of them had left the following in his wake: a heap of nachos with two slices of pizza on top and two individually wrapped jelly donuts, one of which had about three bites taken out of it. One of my mom's students e-mailed me last night to say that he is trying to decide whether to go to AU or GW. He has a lot of questions. What is AU like? What is college like?, he asks me. What is college like? All I can think to say is that college is taking more donuts than you could ever even hope to eat, and college is a mountain of nachos with two slices of pizza on top.