Nelson
Love literature and writing, GRE score of 770.
Literature is the way to achieve a wider understanding of the world than is possible otherwise. I have read widely for fifty years and and connected that reading with what the world is and how it works. After achieving a professional ability in several fields and working with all kinds of people it becomes clear that Conrad, Twain, Faulkner, Isak Dinesen and Willa Cather--for instance--are dealing with real people and real issues of human life. After a life of reading whatever came in arm...