When Friends Leave

By Nate Kreuter. At the end of my first year of graduate school, a friend -- almost out of the blue -- told me, “When I met you, I thought to myself, ‘Ugh, that guy and I are not going to get along at all.’ But look at us now, we’re friends!”
In an admittedly strange way, I think it may be one of the nicest things one of my fellow graduate students ever said to me. Read more...