Guest Column by Nikhil Menezes | Friendship and the allure of structure
Deconstructing social life at a university can be a jarring exercise. It challenges our romantic notions of arbitrary relationships and can reveal disconcerting foundations. By arbitrary relationships, I mean that perhaps unrealistic ideal of meeting a person in a random space, hitting it off with that person, maybe exchanging numbers and then sharing enough common experiences to make appropriate the label “friend.”