Heh

Andrew Wright, friend, fel­low blog­ger, and stu­dent in Chi Alpha, refers to a pos­i­tive impact I had on his life:

[Tobias] Wolff destroyed any resid­ual inter­est I still had in Ayn Rand and Objec­tivism, com­plet­ing the process begun by a series [of] sum­mer con­ver­sa­tions with Glen in 2002.

I hoped I was mak­ing sense back then. That was real­ly one of my first min­istry chal­lenges at Stan­ford. Andrew was our very first stu­dent in Chi Alpha (and he turned into our house­mate with­in weeks of our arrival).

It’s bit­ter­sweet see­ing him grad­u­ate in a few months. On the one hand, my job as a min­is­ter will be MUCH eas­i­er with­out Andrew ;), but on the oth­er hand he’s our last link to the begin­ning. We will have offi­cial­ly cycled a stu­dent gen­er­a­tion.

I was pret­ty heart­ened by his last para­gaph:

Com­menc­ing the last quar­ter at Stan­ford – the last 3 months of indis­cre­tion of my life, but to cram all of the fun and fol­ly of the past 4 years into one quar­ter would prob­a­bly kill me. Rather than resolv­ing to live it up, I’m hop­ing to end on a note that is simul­ta­ne­ous­ly reflec­tive and for­ward look­ing, a sort of tran­scen­dent Bud­dha-like coast­ing into the next high­er phase.

We’ll be watch­ing, Andrew. 🙂