PAUL CHRISTENSEN

I thought I wanted to become a philosopher when I went to college. I signed up for an introductory course and found myself sitting in a large hall with a hundred other students listening to a man who had given these same lectures countless times before. He couldn't help but be bored with his own once humorous examples; he stuttered a little to get through some of his favorite anecdotes, like the time he was late to class and found his students had left. He scolded them the ne