Visits: 34 Swift-inspired classes are sweeping colleges across the country. The syllabus is much like what one might expect from an undergraduate English course, with texts by William Wordsworth, Willa Cather and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. But there is one name …
Finding Her ‘Barack Obama’ With the Help of a Friend
Visits: 32 Olivia Castor and Austin McNair met at Harvard through Ms. Castor’s roommate, who had a knack for matchmaking. One day in April 2017, during the spring semester of her senior year at Harvard, Olivia Melissa Castor received a …
Florence Berger, Who Helped People Find Enduring Love, Dies at 83
Visits: 36 A tenured professor at Cornell with a feel for human chemistry, she found a second calling as a successful matchmaker. Almost all of her pairings lasted. Florence Berger, a Cornell University professor who found a second calling as …
Sorry, You’ve Been Rejected. Now Let’s Party.
Visits: 19 At Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles in mid-April, Lynda McGee, one of the school’s college counselors, checked her paper shredder. She needed to make sure it had the optimal effect: loud, obnoxious and finite. Soon, her …
Where Did the Royals Find Prince George’s Nanny?
Visits: 21 BATH, England — Classes begin at 9:30 sharp. From the foot of the driveway, past the arched gates bearing the school’s name and through the main building’s north–facing windows, one glimpses the neat rows of students settling in …
Paranoia and Pastels at Bama Rush
Visits: 23 Fears about TikTok and rumors of a secret documentary swirl around sorority rush week at the University of Alabama. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — When Marina Anderson was accused of recording herself inside a party and told she was being …
Was This a Meet-Cute or Meet Creep?
Visits: 48 While I was living in the basement of my university’s library, he watched me sleep. Then he left a note in my shoe. The summer after my freshman year of college, I decided to live for a few …
I Was a Lesbian Until This Summer. What Happened?
Visits: 28 A reader worries about a summer romance that may alter her social life when she returns to college. I am 20 years old, about to start my junior year in college and need your help ASAP! I thought …
How to Drop Out of College
Visits: 21 Everyone but me knew it was doomed from the start. I told my mother I was dropping out six weeks before Covid-19 was declared a pandemic and two weeks before Valentine’s Day. It was a panicked, frantic phone …
The Happiness Course: Here What’s Some Learned
Visits: 29 The Yale happiness class, formally known as Psyc 157: Psychology and the Good Life, is one of the most popular classes to be offered in the university’s 320-year history. The class was only ever taught in-person once, during …