It surprised me that being back on campus reignited my contempt so suddenly and doomed any of the optimism I’d been feeling the past few weeks. This was not going to be the happy year I’d foolishly envisioned and hoped for over the summer; whatever excitement had been caused by my own faulty wiring. I realized too late while standing in the courtyard below the Pavilion on that first morning back, that I hadn’t been paying enough attention to the actual script.
