Oh-So Intense

This semester, I have a pretty phenom lineup of classes. My professors really have it together, as their lectures are thorough and informative.

I'm currently enrolled in a "Victimology" course, a class focusing on the behavioral inquisitions related to victims within the forensic field. There is some pretty intense reading on the syllabus. Naturally, I appreciate this material in a way that only a student of my field could be... But I'm thinking everyone could appreciate the message here...

"After class I walked to the men's room and looked at myself in the mirror. There I was - not the man in a suit staring at himself in the mirror over the bar in Georgetown and trying to be no one. I was alive and I wanted to be alive."

- Secret Life, Michael Ryan

(Secret Life is the autobiography of Michael Ryan, sharing his experience as the victim of sexual abuse at the age of five, later developing an interest in becoming the perpetrator as an adult.)