Of course, in those days of our rather shuttered existence, we didn’t really ponder the characteristics of our little world and the larger world, limiting ourselves instead to tentative professional aspirations, tempered to a large extent by sober evaluations picked up from our parents as to the chances of entering this or that college. The very notion of college formed a sort of a line, the border or threshold separating us from the larger world. This threshold went by the name ‘matriculation,’ and it dazzled us, blinding us, preventing us from making out the prospects opening behind it. Simply put, to a large extent ‘matriculation’ was a goal in and of itself. We never discussed what would follow. I can remember only one case which could be called an attempt to peek beyond that threshold
