My best university memories are related to like-minded friends. We met at the main building hall, went to the canteen together and dug out books to lend to each other from our bags. We wrote about the new theories we had read, typed texts to science and culture magazines under the group name Teoriatehdas, and edited each other’s essays. There was endless pottering around and talking.

I also took part in many study groups on Derrida, Nietzsche and Hegel. I even delved into the secrets of ancient Greek.

Arto Noro, a sociologist at the University, has particularly remained in my memory. After I had written a draft for an article, Arto drew large crosses over the first four pages. He then showed me the fifth page and said: “Start from here.” Noro believed in my doctoral thesis. He also told me about the great perch waters around Suomenlinna. One November day at the beginning of the 2000’s a Nietzsche translator and I caught 27 perch (Perca fluviatilis) there.