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In college, students can explore new possibilities

Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. - Opinion Piece

August 30, 2010

As freshmen, you have arrived on campus, fully formed, intellectually mature, with impeccable values and perfect judgment. Just kidding. You are not in college because you already know everything you need to know but because you are unfinished. In college you will live with, work with, argue with, and perhaps even fall in love with people whose norms and worldviews are very different from your own. This is extremely hard work - and it is normal for anxious people to retreat into the reassuring womb of those deeply embedded certainties with which your upbringing has equipped them. But this is what you must not do.

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