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You see out of 700 hundred students I was the only one in my high school to get accepted into the University of Puerto Rico's Mayagüez campus. The most prestigious university in Puerto Rico. I was the only one to get accepted in recent in years, the only one for years to come.

The first thing I did, the first night I stayed in the barracks-like room that should have been my home, was pray.

I prayed

(waaaiiit for iiiiit!...)

The next day I broke my leg...

Bone, muscle, tendons... I overheard someone whispering that my leg was now, effectively, useless, that they might as well amputate.

I didn't lose it. And I eventually walked again. And I finished my degree, though not at UPRM. I finished it at the Central University in Bayamón. Which is a catholic university. I liked it way better than UPRM. It was on my level in so many ways. After a broken leg a funny thing started happening in my brain. And I thought, I'm not special enough for UPRM. I'm not special , period.

It was at CentralU that I got the best schooling ever. And the best class.

That class was Fundamentals of Logic. It was thaught by a professor that was rumored to have rescinded his priesthood, after many years in the lord's service, in order to marry a woman. I learned a lot in that class, basically how not to believe in bullshit.

That proffesor's favorite phrase came from the Latin language, which he translated thus: "There is nothing in the intellect which didn't pass first through the senses." or, "Nihil est in intellectu quim prius non fuerit in sensu."

I'm sure that I've been bullshitted time and time again. I'm sure I've been the universe's biggest fool once or twice in my life.

But.

After that logic class with a former priest I never prayed again.