For more than an hour I tried to pull myself together from what I saw. I don’t know about others, but personally I was, to put it mildly, unpleasant to observe something like this. Everything looks different in real life than it does on TV. These sounds, movements ... I was already shivering all over from the memories.

I drove into the dorm, grabbed my blueprint folder, and rushed off to college. Time was sorely lacking. I didn’t even know what to grab on to in the first place, it’s good that Professor Tigay agreed to help me. She saw how I went out of my way to keep the...