Ars Moriendi

I met with Dr. Eire today. The day had finally come.

I was so nervous. I was scared of botching it. I was scared of being found out for being a lame undergrad. And I was scared of realizing I just might not want to go into academia.....

turns out all of my fears were in vain. Talking with him was so fun. He was incredibly smart and informative. But even more, he was incredibly interested in what I had to say. We talked like peers for a good part of the meeting. He's not only a great researcher and author - he's such a great and balanced person. He loves his material not out of some academic need for knowledge, but out of a spiritual need for transcendence. In many cases, he lives what he studies. Confessions is his favorite work. And he reads ars moriendi texts for fun. I love that.

In all honesty, Im actually less interested in academia than i was before. But having talked with Carlos Eire, I'm totally okay with that.

(p.s. that isn't Dr. Eire...thats Bryan Geist. An old friend from High School how gives the most amazing tours of Yale....really. )