Discuss “Success comes to those who dare to get uncomfortable”

Dear Newbies,

The year’s just begun, so the whole advice from a senior! thing feels a little early, I concede. We don’t traditionally dish out our sincerest advice, our shiniest gems of wisdom, our all-time super-duper, double-secret acuminous nuggets, til, like, April or May.

But one of the neatest things about being a senior is that you care less than ever about the way things are usually done. And you just sort of do them. That’s what this column is about.

The zany, colorful flux of Orientation is over. First- and second-week jitters are probably subsiding. You’ve got more new digits than you knew your phone could hold. You’re assembling a crew. You’ve finally nailed the traffic light pattern at the corner of Forbes and Morewood....