I was standing in an open field, dressed only in a swimsuit, and feeling extremely out of place. It was my second day on staff at the overnight camp I had been attending since elementary school. About fifty yards in front of me sat several hundred campers gazing out towards a foreboding lake. I stood amidst a group of lifeguards, anxiously waiting for a siren that would begin our demonstration of the Lost Swimmer Drill. In these few moments of...