Time to Bunker Up
A while back, two senior academics dragged me (a lowly undergrad) along to a post-seminar. The beers kept coming and they didn't stop coming. After a few rounds, the discussion drifted into what were, for me, uncharted waters. They namedropped people I'd never even heard of, pondered questions I had never thought of asking. So I dazedly followed the courses of the raindrops on the windowpanes, entranced by their golden and ruby glimmerings. One of the beer-guzzling sages, it seems, had noticed my drifting off, and tried to snap me out of my reverie. "What do you think –" he began, in the