Harvard University

All I could do was watch. I watched the speakers eloquently voice out their opinions. I watched the professor steer the conversation. Normally, when you come to class without having read the assigned chapter, or any chapter in the book, for that matter, you get lost in the discussion. That’s not how I felt then. Though I had no background information about Chapter Two of “Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile”, I absorbed each student’s analysis so naturally, it felt like it had been directed towards me. I was visiting Boston, and my friend Michi had invited me to come to Harvard and…