The Past

This is me in my grad school "office" at Rutgers in 1999. I would keep my bike in there (you can just catch the wheel) but the space was so small I had to stand it upright next to my elbow. Steve has posted a photo album from that era that captures the bleak and institutional atmosphere of Rutgers perfectly. If you'll indulge me, here are a few more photos:

My Home - Starkey Apartments

Aaron Ruby sits in the philosophy grad student lounge and contemplates 5 more years in New Brunswick. He took a different path.

Gathered in the lounge (me with the shaggy hair)



I can't believe I lasted 3 years.

UPDATE:

As Gazza reminds me in a comment, the Rutgers philosophy building was the world center for static electricity. You just had to sit around for a while to build up a charge. One time, I was working in my tiny cube, listening to music on my headphones (just like in the photo above) when I decided to remove a fleece. Bad decision. So much static electricity was produced by the fleece running over my long sleeve shirt that (as I was grounded via the headphones in my ears) it discharged into my ears with a CRACK so loud Gary heard it in the next office. I leaped out of my cube swearing and holding my ears. Good times indeed.