Tag: college
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The backpack
My nephew is graduating high school and going to Indiana University to study computer science in the fall, which has set off all sorts of nostalgia triggers for me, as I think about when I made the same journey 247 years ago. My sister updates me on various registration and orientation events and visits and…
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Death and Facebook
I found out last night that an old friend of mine from college died of a brain aneurysm, right after her 40th birthday. She’s someone I lost touch with for twenty years, and then just found on Facebook, so there’s this weird temporal distortion around the friendship. We only exchanged a few messages, compressing two…