Vignettes — #19
Miguel & Ricardo
Miguel takes the letter he has just opened to where his father Ricardo is sitting at his desk. Ricardo looks up. Miguel hands him the letter and Ricardo reads it.
“That’s good news. Now you have three to choose from,” Ricardo says.
“But that’s the problem. Dad. How do I choose? They’re all so different and two of them are interstate. I don’t want to get this wrong.”
“You won’t get it wrong. Wherever you end up, you’ll make it where you want to be.”
“What do you mean?”
“You’ll find that you may think you choose with your amazing intellect, but most of the time you won’t be choosing with your head but with your gut.”
“That makes no sense. I need to work out which has the best philosophy department.”
“No, you don’t need to do that and you probably couldn’t. You would have to read papers written by past students and their professors and probably some of the books written by those professors.”
Miguel flaps the letter in the air. “So, how can I choose which offer to accept?”
“You look more broadly. What does the campus look like? Is there lots of open space to sit in the fresh air and think? Is the campus close to cafés where you can argue with your fellow students…
