College - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/college/?source=rss&aim=college en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT Gated communities of learning By Andy Kroll Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/03/kroll/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/03/kroll/index.html?source=rss Rising tuition and sinking bank accounts are turning the nation's colleges into bastions of inequality. I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/10/20/20_and_brilliant/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/10/20/20_and_brilliant/index.html?source=rss I thought I knew what I wanted to do and now all I want to do is ... join the Navy or ... learn German! Pulling yourself up by the $20,000 bootstraps By Amy Benfer Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/06/16/student_loans/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/06/16/student_loans/index.html?source=rss College loans shouldn't create a class of the "educated poor" Perspire to retire! By Heather Havrilesky Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/08/04/pinched_havrilesky/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/08/04/pinched_havrilesky/index.html?source=rss I was all fired up to save for the future. Then I found out I was a day late and about, um, $90,000 short. Can I help my cousin escape her squalor? By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/08/21/hope_for_cousin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/08/21/hope_for_cousin/index.html?source=rss My mother's family is out of control. I'd like to rescue one promising member without being swallowed up Big city? Big city but hotter? Or Hippieville? By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/08/11/which_city/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/08/11/which_city/index.html?source=rss I'm artistic, capable, driven ... so where should I live after I graduate? In my 20s and confused By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/08/05/what_to_do_next/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/08/05/what_to_do_next/index.html?source=rss Will doing what I'm good at make me happy? Mom says dump the boyfriend or leave home! By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/06/25/mom_s_ultimatum/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/06/25/mom_s_ultimatum/index.html?source=rss We got caught making out and now my mom's all like you have to break up with him if you want to keep living here I'm a Harvard grad who can't hold a fast-food job By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/05/06/harvard_grad/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/05/06/harvard_grad/index.html?source=rss I have a history of depression and I'm back at my parents' -- but I have an Ivy League film degree! I'm an academic woman but I want to be a cop By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/04/15/professor_cop/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/04/15/professor_cop/index.html?source=rss Would a petite, left-leaning professorial type be taken seriously on the streets? My date rapist is on Facebook as a "person I might know" By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/03/26/rapist_on_facebook/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/03/26/rapist_on_facebook/index.html?source=rss I want him to confess and admit he was wrong. Should I contact him? Why teach journalism if newspapers are dying? By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/03/17/journalism_school/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/03/17/journalism_school/index.html?source=rss I feel guilty training kids in a trade for which the market is disappearing. Should I go to grad school or join the military? By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/02/24/military/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/02/24/military/index.html?source=rss I've been planning all my life for an academic career, but now I'm afraid of all the debt. My dad borrowed money in my name By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/02/20/student_loans/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/02/20/student_loans/index.html?source=rss He took out loans for my education and spent it on bills. The two-boyfriend problem By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/01/12/two_boyfriends/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/01/12/two_boyfriends/index.html?source=rss I miss the one I left, but I don't want the one I left him for! I had a nomadic childhood; now I can't maintain ties By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/12/11/nomad_child/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/12/11/nomad_child/index.html?source=rss I seem to have lost some part of myself and wish I could get it back. Diploma with a side of fries By Amy Benfer Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2008/10/28/college/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2008/10/28/college/index.html?source=rss Should students in the bottom 50 percent of their class even bother going to college? I graduated, and I'm bored with beer pong, '80s playlists and Judd Apatow. So what's next? By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/10/09/restless_graduate/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/10/09/restless_graduate/index.html?source=rss I'm not sure I want to spend the next 10 years doing bong hits and playing video games. Nor do I want to join a book discussion group. My office mate was a stinky slob -- so I complained By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/09/16/drama_department/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/09/16/drama_department/index.html?source=rss Too much drama in the drama department -- should I have kept my mouth shut? I seem to be moving in with my boyfriend -- but why?! By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/08/25/boyfriend_with_kid/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/08/25/boyfriend_with_kid/index.html?source=rss His 9-year-old has Tourette's and ADHD, and I'm still a student ... is this a good idea? Can a fractured friendship be renewed? By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/08/06/friendship/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/08/06/friendship/index.html?source=rss Six years ago she said she never wanted to see me again. The other day she called. I've been lying to my family: I never actually graduated! By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/08/04/liar/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/08/04/liar/index.html?source=rss I lied to shut them up but now I can hardly live with myself. My friend has gone bad By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/07/23/fixative/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/07/23/fixative/index.html?source=rss I hate to lose my best college buddy, but her behavior is beyond the pale. At 56 I want an art history degree By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/07/07/art_history/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/07/07/art_history/index.html?source=rss I hit the wall in my dead-end job, I'm sleeping on a friend's floor, but I have a dream! I got the writing fellowship -- so now I'm terrified! By Cary Tennis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/30/writing_fellowship/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/30/writing_fellowship/index.html?source=rss I'm lucky, I know I'm lucky, but I don't feel lucky. I just feel burdened.