New writing alert: a first piece in Nextbook.org.
In a move that surprised me, I have decided to go to Northwestern University's Homecoming Weekend. For anyone unschooled in US traditions, homecoming is a weekend when college alumni come back to campus, the football team plays a home game, and university fundraisers go into high gear to coax donations out of the people who just finished paying $40,000 a year in tuition. I'm going to see my friends, although I feel guilty about my carbon spewing flight (I wrote about it here).
Of course, now that I am going for the weekend I have already caught wind of an alumni bar night, where $25 gets you lots of beer and other drinks, but $35 gets you the coveted Northwestern Homecoming shirt. Don't these people know what a recession is?
Well, bitter commentary aside, I am very excited to go back to school for the first time in a year and a half.
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