We Were

Penn State Bolstered My Sense of Identity, Under False Pretenses

Since I graduated from college in 2006, my winter weekend errands-and-lounging outfit has remained grubbily uniform: out-of-style jeans, sneakers, Penn State sweatshirt. The outfit is comfortable, and I am a sloppy dresser, yes, but there was another reason why I sported that sweatshirt so frequently. My neighborhood in the Virginia periphery of Washington, D.C. is so popular among Penn State alumni that it boasts not one but two bars for Nittany Lion football viewing–one rowdy and one low-key (in spite of bottomless mimosas during noon games).

I’ve never been terribly outgoing; …

by Torie Bosch | November 16, 2011

Hey, Who Stole My Comfortable Bohemian Future?

The Powers That Be Blew My Generation's Inheritance

September 21, 2011

by Calvin Alvarez

I had a lot of fun in college.

It wasn’t so much the drinking, the partying, the first taste of freedom, or the drug experimentation-not that those were unappreciated.

It …

Give Me Your Wired, Your Rich, Your Huddled Brainiacs

California’s Great at Higher Ed-Let’s Export More of It

by Cécile Hoareau | July 31, 2011

With California so low on cash, you’d think we’d be trying to find more out-of-state buyers for our goods and services. But we’ve largely overlooked one of the most obvious …

Mind the Gap

Put College on the Waiting List

by Charlie Melvoin | April 17, 2011

Get in. Get out. That’s my advice to high school seniors: get in to college, then get out of your comfort zone.

My Los Angeles high school was the quintessential pressure …

The Double Life of an Undocumented Student

Pressure From Family and the Law Bear Down

by Erick Huerta | December 5, 2010

Once, when I was seven, I fell asleep in Michoacán and woke in Boyle Heights. No joke. Now I am a bewildered 26-year-old undocumented college student, whose life may become …

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