<p>Forums are good. They provide you with people to talk to.</p>
<p>I am a cornucopia of rich experiences. I've been to the top of the 99-floor Sears Tower. I play NetHack. I have tried freeze-dried icecream, and can tell the difference between male and female fruit flies. I have fasted for no good reason, participated in a political protest, and stood on a beach during a hurricane.</p>
<p>Yet the most compelling part is that the person across the room from me probably has lived an equally rich life with experiences I can barely imagine because I am so confined to my own world, my own environment, my own patterns of thought. Inside every one of us there's a whole new world to discover. My perspective is just so incredibly -- narrow -- compared to those of the ten undergrads sitting downstairs, simply because there's ten of them, and they've lived through ten times as much stuff as I have.</p>
<p>That was a bit incoherent. But my point is, stay on forums, even if you're not staying on this one. A textbook can teach you physics, but a friend can double what you already know.</p>
<p>Peace.</p>