As humans, if we are parting and we are sad, then we are truly blessed beyond measure, given far more than we deserve.

The short version about me would say all the basics: that I'm seventeen, a senior in high school, a thirteen year veteran of home-school, a writer, a golfer, a person. But the facts you already know and they only tell part of the story, the way one can only estimate the time of day by the position of the sun.

Throughout the four to five years that a student spends in college, he/she will never read even one percent of the books available. Amid schoolwork, test preparation, and textbooks, there's not enough time to read anything else. What good is this access when you don't have the time to use it?