Perspective: 'Some people say picking a college is just as important as picking a spouse. I think that’s wrong. It’s more like buying a house.'
We should appreciate that this great adventure of choosing a college will often be messy and incomplete. Those of us who decide which school to attend are usually teenagers, many of us not sure who we are or where our lives are going.
That first college I attended was Occidental. It remains a fine school on a sunny hillside not far from where I live in Southern California. I went there because I was obsessed with China. I decided I would become the first U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic and establish a golden era of amity between our two countries.Oxy, as it was called then and now, had a much-publicized diplomacy and world affairs department. I also loved the lively political atmosphere at the school.
John F. Kennedy. He had been a government major, so I became one, too. Sadly, the courses in that department were dull. Also troubling was the absence of any debate over the presidential election. Goldwater fans were numerous in Southern California but not in Massachusetts.I loved that trash-strewn place from the beginning. I enjoyed having my first attempts at news writing torn apart by staffers, some of them younger than I was.
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