My introverted friends tell me that they can hardly stand all the interaction that they are forced to have here at Seminary. I don't quite understand what they are talking about! This has to be the lonliest place I have ever been. You spend a couple of hours in class, not really interacting much with others, and then go to chapel. Chapel is not terribly interactive, at least not with other humans. You are around them, but physical colocation does not equal interaction. Then you to to lunch. Lunch does provide interactiion and I enjoy it a great deal.
The rest of your time is spent reading, doing research, wandering around the basement library stacks, and writing papers. I am constantly alone. This place is the most isolated I have felt since I first joined the Air Force twenty-four years ago. I sit in my library study carrel, reading, watching the rain run down the window pane and wonder that my introverted friends are not more energetic than they are. If you get your energy from being by yourself and spend 80% of your time by yourself, shouldn't you be in a great mood the other 20%??
To an extrovert, this place is purgatory. The isolation saps the energy and tires the soul. I can't wait to be done.
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