Stopping to rest on a bench in the shade of an oak tree, she synced the photos to her phone, and uploaded one to her personal Instagram—the campus lake in August sunlight, its surface a shining mosaic. “Drink your coffee, embrace the silence, do not take people seriously, do not take life upon yourself, do not exaggerate your emotions, and do not please anyone against your will,” she wrote as a caption, quoting Mahmoud Darwish.

