From 9/11 to Nihilism

One man's journey

On 9/11/01, I was less than two weeks into my Ph.D. program. I was in class when the planes struck the towers, and learned what happened afterwards from the radio in some other students’ office. My friends and I spent the day trying to reload news websites, which were intermittently brought down by the unprecedentedly heavy traffic. I called family m…