Congratulation, Jazzo. I concur with the wisdom other members offer. Enjoy the challenges of the new experiences ahead, and keep your feet anchored to the very (un)common-sense reality you have displayed to us on this board. Mix business and pleasure in full measure – otherwise, as Berowne says in Love’s Labour’s Lost:
”O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep,
Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep!”

The only specific advice I offer is: question everything. That includes your own natal and conditioned assumptions, as well as the logic and motives of all who will presume to share their wisdom. In cultivating dispassionate intellectual honesty, avoid the trap of empty cynicism, lest the King’s jibe about Berowne come true:
“How well he’s read, to reason against reading!”

Good luck.


Bingley, it’s so good to see someone climb out of such an addictive frying pan…