A female professor at a contemporary university considers her relationship to her job. She thinks back to a professor she once knew when she was younger who asked her what she’d want to be written on her gravestone. The thought bothers her as she considers her students and her job: how the students are so dependent on their technology, but how they bend to her will so easily. She thinks about how the questions that she answered during the first year of teaching are still being asked now, and about how her solitude is not loneliness because of the opportunity it affords her to convene with her precious books. She enters the wilderness to think. She wishes she could reconnect with her old professor, hostile as he was, because then she’d be able to see how he impacted her and how she impacted him.