Those of us who’d arrived on campus ahead of the start of the semester awoke to the aftermath of the wild hurricane that had swept through the area overnight. Trees were down, trash was everywhere, power was out and so was the Wi-Fi. Some started to panic. Tiffany stepped up and announced, “Calm down, everybody. We can still get to the cafeteria. Let’s get some candles lit. C’mon, it’ll be like a campout.”

Candles were dutifully lit. A party went to raid the cafeteria. But people were unnerved being without their phones and other devices. It looked like there were about 35 of us in the wing. We were going to have to entertain ourselves until power returned and normalcy was restored.

We broke out decks of cards and a few board games were discovered. People wandered up and down the... Read More