and Words
Surrender into the night
Silently take my hand
Nobody knows what′s inside us
Nobody understands
They handed us down a dream
To live in this lonely town
But nobody hears the music
Only the echo of a hollow sound
Where do the children go
Between the bright night and darkest day?
Where do the children go
And who’s that deadly piper who leads them away?
Lyric excerpts from Musixmatch.
I started college at the University of Miami in 1986. I was a computer geek in high school and continued in college. People looked upon computers differently back then. In high school, we word processed and played games with computers; only a select few dared to program these machines. I learned to program BASIC from the thick 3-ring binders that came with the computer.
I moved into Pearson Hall. My dorm room sat in a short wing, half a flight from the lobby. The elevator button to my floor was “R1”, for Rear 1. All my neighbors in that short hallway were incoming freshmen, save the handful of upperclassmen from the year before that retained their dorm room. This is where I first met George, and through him, I met other friends.