Because it’s fun. You get free orange juice and cookies when you’re done. You get to be a little late for class. You get to wear a sticker.

And because you could save someone’s life.

It’s hard to believe that those terrorist attacks took place half a decade ago. That was not one, but two “phases” of life ago, if you count schools as phases, and I very much would. I was in jr. high. High school was in the future, and I never spent time thinking about college. Now it takes an anniversary to make me think about jr. high.