a sense of joy and then a panic

I just wanted you to know this wasn't something I made up myself, that I had thought about it seriously, if not from a perspective you're used to. Seeing as we are both students at small liberal arts colleges with decent reputations, I really don't think I'm the only one of the two of us who has a background in authors who take some aspect of this as their concern, or the only one of us whose opinion has a basis in our education. There is nothing about my comment that necessitates it being taken as a statement of my education in comparison to your lack. We are, in most respects, equals here, and your taking my statement as indicating otherwise shows something, I guess, but it's neither contained in my intention or the statement itself.