Real life is lame. Sure, there are certainly some high points, but more often than not, life is stressful or tedious. And students get an even bigger heap of stress and tedium than most—there are...

by Kei Michisaki About five years ago, I was staring down at a pile of eye-catching trinkets I’d collected from the beach: shells, rocks, chunks of dried coral, sticks and leaves. I wanted to...