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: I never understood The Catcher in the Rye while in high school. Holden's problems seemed too self-pitying and trivial. My own life back then was wonderfully sheltered and filled with goals towards which I feverishly worked. It wasn't until college that I had the desire to experience the real world. The people that I met had been exposed to this world much earlier than I. The smiles they wore and the stories they told of the great lives that they had led before ending up on my dorm floor masked some truly traumatic or at least less than ideal previous existences. And the claustrophobic setting of the residence hall soon forced some of these individuals to act in a way that betrayed these old wounds. A girl whom I barely knew in high school had the following verse from Shakespeare as her senior quote in our yearbook, 'Look like the innocent rose but be the serpent beneath it.' I definitely paraphrased that verse but the point is that it seemed like everyone person I chose to trust in college and even now in medical school lives by this motto. For a while, I thought I was going to lose it.

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