Planning to fix higher education… by morning.
PLANNING TO FIX HIGHER EDUCATION… BY MORNING.
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Remember those nights? The hum of the mini-fridge, a mountain of textbooks, the pervasive scent of cheap coffee. Midnight was never for sleep; it was the activation hour for grand pronouncements. Exhausted yet incandescently brilliant, at least in our own minds, the world's problems – especially academia's woes – seemed so clear, so solvable, particularly after 2 AM.
We'd dissect syllabi, critique pedagogy, and design new curricula, fueled by cold pizza and looming deadlines. Reforming admissions, restructuring degree programs – no systemic flaw was too daunting for our collective, sleep-deprived genius. Solutions diagrammed on whiteboards or discarded sheets; convinced we'd found the Rosetta Stone for educational reform.
The real beauty wasn't just in audacious ideas, but the shared experience. Those raw, unfiltered conversations, passionate disagreements, and sudden clarity amidst chaos forged genuine intellectual bonds. We learned not just to think critically, but to dream audaciously, even if grand plans evaporated with dawn. That late-night idealism, that drive to question and improve, undoubtedly stayed.
Whether still in the dorms, navigating career, or raising the next generation, that spirit of late-night intellectual madness – that conviction we could, and would, fix it all by morning – remains a defining part of our journey.